I'll miss the good old days where our lab environment was never looked at by security or IT. I was a firewall admin at a F100 bank and we had some linux server

I'll miss the good old days where our lab environment was never looked at by security or IT. I was a firewall admin at a F100 bank and we had some linux servers we used to do automation against our production firewall systems. We did some of the best, most secure work we ever did because we had access to scripting systems and Python. We built a host of auditing, ops, and secure automation and cleanup tools. It took months if not literally a year or more to convince all the right "stakeholders" that we need a prod server for such a purpose. Same reason we used Bottle.py for our web GUI: We didn't have to install it; it ran on system Python install. I also remember standing up Dokuwiki because our company was two years away from deploying Confluence (puke), and remember setting up Gitlab in a lab environment two years before we got Gitlab, because we only had... some IBM version control, all the tooling and regs around it were built around enterprise product development, not backend. In other words, shadow IT led us to be a more secure organization. It seems IT in the 2020s is getting a clue when it comes to deployment, and now that they have automated everything from deploy to scan, it isn't such a huge ask to get a linux server with which to program. Maybe shadow IT won't be needed anymore. Then again, perfect enforcement of laws is a dangerous thing in society. Maybe too in cyber?