You're touching upon a natural tension, where developers take certain shortcuts that operations people then have to solve, which, I suppose, DevOps practices tr

You're touching upon a natural tension, where developers take certain shortcuts that operations people then have to solve, which, I suppose, DevOps practices try to solve. The developers pay the price of less freedom for that, or if you will, the price of (production) reality. If that's not what your shop is doing, then what you say makes sense to me, and clearly DevOps practices aren't for everyone.