Typically when you start a new dev job the company will provide you with a pre-provisioned laptop that has their security stuff setup and maybe dev tools already installed, eg source code, compilers, VMs, Nix, and a supported editor, so it's not exactly a personal machine that they're messing with.
Sure, and personally, I have no issue installing and using recommended tools since it's indeed just a work laptop, but I've seen more tuned setups too (see parent's point 2: "Developers really like to have control over their own machines")
