That kind of divide ultimately falls apart. Over time, things built in dev mode rely more and more on its insecurity and production systems get pushed that way.

That kind of divide ultimately falls apart. Over time, things built in dev mode rely more and more on its insecurity and production systems get pushed that way. This is why development systems need to be as production-like as possible. Otherwise people ship boring webapps that inexplicable rely on running as root in privileged containers and expect prod to enable this.