Restricting access to sensitive information makes sense.
But screeching an organisation (especially one with as much momentum as a government) to a halt to accomplish this is fucking stupid.
This shit needs months, more like years, of planning and specifications to implement without grinding governments to a halt. I guess the only people (I mean, other than the employees) affected by this are the people that can’t afford to have employees that solve problems for them.
So, on brand of “crushing the poor & working class”

Edit.
Reassessing, it sounds like the people that oversee the system have been locked out by elons clowns.
Only reason to do that is to exfiltrate data, I guess