You may be onto something here: IT is under constant pressure to squeeze ever more performance out of its workers. Optimizing for performance means taking a common task, standardizing it to make sure that it can be easily repeated without much effort.
What do you mean by "not having IT organizations"? What is the alternative?
Kill the patient!
I'm not sure eliminating IT or 'killing the patient' as you so eloquently phrase it, is a viable solution for many companies. What can be done to increase the metabolic activity of creativity in said patient instead of killing him?