Any privileged access or secrets given to engineers in plaintext on their daily driver workstations -will- be compromised or misused. Full stop. There is never

Any privileged access or secrets given to engineers in plaintext on their daily driver workstations -will- be compromised or misused. Full stop. There is never a good reason to do this apart from management inexperienced in security and infrastructure management. Every single usage of secrets of privileged action of consequence must go through code review followed by multiple signatures where an automated system does the dangerous things on your behalf with a paper trail. Never follow any instructions to place privileged secrets or access in plaintext on an development OS or you might well be the one a CEO chooses as a sacrificial lamb.