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That's not a "senior developer." That's a developer that has just been around for too long.
Secrets shouldn't be in configurations, and developers shouldn't be mucking around in production, nor with production data.
Yeah the whole config thing in that project was an eldritch horror of a legacy, too ingrained in both the services and tooling to be modified without massive rewrites
That's just a senile developer