Teaching Developers to Fly Into Deployment?

Ok, ok, during a particular deployment event that somebody was doing somewhere on the planet the team I'm in ran into a perfect analogy for disparate deployment environments…

"It's like teaching pilots to fly by driving cars, who needs that extra dimension!"

I mean really, pilots don't need that third dimension, who goes up and down in a plane!  we could save billions as a nation if we stuck em' all in little cars!  I have a perfect design for this already, I'll license it for production for super cheap…