Depends on the incentives placed on ops. All too often, they're responsible to handle things breaking, but not responsible for getting features out the door.

Depends on the incentives placed on ops. All too often, they're responsible to handle things breaking, but not responsible for getting features out the door. Hence, they become a huge gate to get anything out; they have no incentive to help you. Meanwhile, you get dev owning some of the operational burden, and it works pretty well. Until you have compliance needs to separate them.