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It's way to easy to 'confuse' the two and accidentally make a mistake that would take out production. A simple ORACLE_SID 'oops' and you are done.
Also, development is supposed to be able to 'evaluate' new versions/products.
How can you start the evaluation of the newest OS? Let alone latest database products.