Admin tools, particularly federating admin actions in a distributed team - will never not happen. Their shape may change, but devoting time to building the first version will give you the harness you need.
Source: I am writing three services at this point that are mostly Middleware to deal with the lack of native federation for certain services we use.
Source: I am writing three services at this point that are mostly Middleware to deal with the lack of native federation for certain services we use.