I work with a guy who has been sysadmin for 20± years (and he is good) he says something like this (I am paraphrasing):

It is a problem if Hipster-Developers work on bleeding edge Linux, because their software will run on their system but nearly nowhere else (including their own system a year later). If you wanna develope do it on a debian or buntu - if it works there, others won't have a problem

Not sure with I totally agree with him, but we had multiple problems which seemed to proof his point.