Policies distancing devs from being serious players started after the T20 scandal, when a dev was giving T2 Blueprints to certain players (and these blueprints were worth a loooot) but were probably too strict.

I used to be experienced enough that I had more than a dozen accounts and probably a couple thousand dollars worth of assets. And I run an ingame business that I still manage. And yet I'm nothing on a corp or alliance level, so the average employee could be more engaged without getting into dangerous territory.