That's more or less right on spot. I can (almost) relate.

From my experience, very few companies' managements would agree with this -- OK maybe on the paper, yet making it happen is another story. I can foresee the typical comment: "these new software engineers they expect a red carpet to be laid in front of them. In my time it was not like this."

Obviously it requires some forward thinking, a larger organization, a commitment and a lot of support/investment. I don't think than an organization can move from one scheme to the other either -- can't scale up, nor scale down.

And it's not something you can change in an existing environment. Not as long as the idea will survive that work should be hard, not fun.