No, it's more likely that DBAs will not undertand why development needs certain things and will refuse change requests that, if granted, would allow the development to take place more rapidly and be more thorioughly tested during the course of development, because DBAs don't understand that developers need open access to mchines for experimentation.  Of course they also need some secured machines, since they have to ensure that their output works on properly configured and secured systems, but too many DBAs and SysAdmins fail to understand that. 
Another point is that your environment is presumably a pretty unprofessional and unhappy one, as you recruit people who can't be trusted to use as your developers - or is that just something that isn't there but is made to appear to be there by a baselessly prejudiced "I'm a DBA and these plebeian developers are all too dim to understand" attitude that all too many DBAs and SysAdmins display, perhaps a consequence of the over-specialisation pushed by incompetent managers leading to class boundaries in the office?