[Hakashiro]

As a restaurant owner, would you prevent an expert cook employee from using their favourite brand of knives? Or even knives they bring from home? Probably not.

What if your insurance only covered certain brands and explicitly excluded the ones your cook used? That would probably make the cook less happy and less effective. Yes, happiness is important. Your employees perform their best when they use their favourite tools. This can either be Vim, their own ergonomic keyboard or even Linux instead of Windows.

Every restriction you add increases friction and decreases output.

No, it's not about installing Bonzi Buddy, it's about giving your people the best tools (the tools they like) to perform their best. Sometimes this incurs risks like unpatched vulnerabilities, like any software, but to go and paint this as some sort of entitled attitude developers have is plain ridiculous, honestly.