I'm not sure why you think I am questioning your responsibility? My observation has been that teams that don't have tool choice almost always lost it because t

I'm not sure why you think I am questioning your responsibility? My observation has been that teams that don't have tool choice almost always lost it because they had an overly specified build environment. Often under the guise of "streamlining" the setup. And this is why they have that particular build server still sitting around that only the head developer is allowed to modify. In what should be a straw man argument, I've seen this go so far as folks not knowing how to even try to build their software on anything other than the sanctioned IDE with them having to use the mouse to click the "now build" button. Which is all to say, my argument is intended to be that you do need a repeatable and streamlined build system that is tested and run in a variety of environments. The more diversity in where/how it is run, the more trust I have that the team actually understands how it works. Especially as a whole. For the personal control, letting the devs accomplish onboarding in a way that they control empowers them to make the changes to the setup that help make that happen, and gives more autonomy to them. Giving them autonomy means they can fix things they see. And you want that, as they will see far far more of what is happening than board level management will. Does this mean you can't/don't meet compliance? Of course not. Most compliance can be tested. And it should be tested. Again, this testing benefits from diversity of execution, as well, such that a test that can pass on a variety of environments and toolsets is far more trustworthy than one that can only pass on a particularly sanctioned setup. Now, pulling this back from a straw man argument. I accept there are situations where this level of freedom is harder to achieve. If you take my argument as absolute requiring that the entire team supports every possible variation of tool that could be thrown at them, please walk it back some. That isn't my intent. I just get scared by efforts to unify it all down to one, as well.