They were wrong.
Environment agnostic developer access changes everything. No more wrestling with mismatched stacks, stalled onboarding, or days lost to waiting for setups. You code against the real thing, the moment you need it, no matter where it runs. Local, cloud, hybrid — access works the same.
The old way chained developers to the quirks of each environment. Different credentials. Different configs. Different pitfalls. One team hacked around it, another fought through it, and every handoff came with fresh friction. Projects slowed. Energy drained. Delivery slipped.
With an environment agnostic approach, every door is open. Developers connect once, work anywhere, and switch contexts without rebuilding the world each time. The barrier between “test” and “production-like” vanishes. The path from pull request to live system is clear and direct.