It allows the company to save on dedicated resources in my experience. A lot of first-class *nix admins in my generation have a problem dealing with dev ideas

It allows the company to save on dedicated resources in my experience. A lot of first-class *nix admins in my generation have a problem dealing with dev ideas in system context. In the company I am at now we have gone a step further and allowed dev/mgmt to control ops|prod and reserved system to sidestep the crapulence of this concept.