In one of my very first jobs in the mid 90ies there was also an incoming team we took over from a major competitor, who made the processes I introduced much simpler by removing dev testing, staging and CVS. They preferred to work as root on the live servers with 80.000 customers. Development was apparently so much easier with immediate feedback.

I liked that so much, that I resigned, and found a much better job 2 years later. I guess you could say bad cultural fit.