Nope. Developers can get all the experience they need in a dev sandbox environment with all the same tools and infra. They do not need access to the production environment.
It's a responsibility / authority issue, generally brought on by poor management. I get what you are saying, and I suspect many in this thread agree with your sentiments. Frankly, when I'm wearing the developer hat I'd rather not have production access, because then I can tell management / the business that I can't fix their production issue. But, often management is going to cajole, yell, scream, etc at whomever they think can fix the problem, and that often ends up with a developer who doesn't even want to be there having production access in order to fight yet another fire. Shouldn't be that way, but there it is.