An old job had that setup, with about 15 devs per instance. It worked surprisingly well, where each developer had sudo access but was asked to 'use it with care

An old job had that setup, with about 15 devs per instance. It worked surprisingly well, where each developer had sudo access but was asked to 'use it with care'. It helped that there was a mix in the type of work, so not everyone was doing resource-intensive work, etc.