it is not always frowned upon. It is a big NO in prod servers.
But most companies have less critical or testing environments available where people have some more space to play with.
And some teams like support, QA, Dev, etc usually have their own vm servers available to play with.
Where i work support analysts even had their personal servers they could do whatever they wanted, within reason of course. They still have access to VMs at AWS that they can start and destroy at will, but now there is just a few base images to choose from.
But most companies have less critical or testing environments available where people have some more space to play with.
And some teams like support, QA, Dev, etc usually have their own vm servers available to play with.
Where i work support analysts even had their personal servers they could do whatever they wanted, within reason of course. They still have access to VMs at AWS that they can start and destroy at will, but now there is just a few base images to choose from.