For me, the idea of devops was always to help developers gain enough insight into operations, to be more useful. I don't care if you can easily test your war-file from within eclipse -- make sure that it can be sensibly deployed and upgraded on a locked down headless box.
Basically turning great developers into great system architects.
To me, it seems like it makes sense that a great developer should absolutely know how his code is running, how his changes interact with the production environment in which the code runs, etc.
You'd take a hit if you visit any big company that's not centered around IT.
It's quite common for the developers to be forbidden from knowing the details of the production environment, and usually they have no easy way to get that info. But don't mind, a DBA will think about the interaction between the several programs, and the ops people will think about performance.
Basically turning great developers into great system architects.