That is exactly my problem. Having worked with ESRI software for almost a decade at this point, I was privileged enough to go to school and work in places with a full suit of Enterprise capabilities (as large organizations). Now I find that I have to MacGyver/ hodge-podge almost half of the work I do at my current job because I can't by default do certain things with ESRI; I find myself having to go to open source software, or more recently, start venturing into the Developers world just to see what I can do with my Python/Java/JavaScript know-how to get our projects off the ground. Which is a great step, thoroughly interesting, and I would encourage anyone to look into .... but like most people I don't have the luxury of spending my days at work learning code and how to apply it because there is 10 years worth of GIS work to do sitting in the company vault that is entirely my responsibility. Which means I have to do it at night. I don't have a family or kids so after hours works okay, but now I'm putting in 60 hrs a week just on my career. Just for the chance of finding a better way
I know its a privilege you pay for but it strikes me that even outside of packages you can purchase to augment your license, or access to mobile capabilities that are included, there are simply things that will only work/ work better with, or problems that only have reasonable solutions through/ or ultimately end up requiring access to, Enterprise.
