I agree with you. But you are viewing it from a web application centric organisation. There are lot of other types of organisations out there, for eg. a company

I agree with you. But you are viewing it from a web application centric organisation. There are lot of other types of organisations out there, for eg. a company that uses vendor products and now has to give access to servers, databases etc. to the vendor. The scenarios you need access to the downstream resources is mainly for doing ops on them. Other things such as viewing logs can is predictable and can be exposed via some tool to developers.