Oh, believe me, I can relate. The difference is that now I can see the waterfail faction starting to realize they need to change. Once you get a few data points for comparison, it becomes hard to maintain that the status quo is maintainable.
The trick is really to turn it into an economic argument. Figure out how to get the budget officer to start asking why project Y requires servers + staff at an order of magnitude greater than project X and the pressure starts shifting.
