Hi -
I have worked with, quite literally DOZENS of environments.
I have NEVER, EVER, EVVVVVVEEEEEER seen a development environment under a license have "unlimited" AOs or SUs*. In fact, I have never seen one where development had a different AO/SU count than production.
Now, perhaps it is possible that this is something that has changed in the last 6 months (none of the environments I have seen were started more recently than 6 months ago).
But I have never heard of this either.
If you want a sandbox/junk environment with unlimited AOs, use a Personal Environment**. That's one of the reasons they exist. This also lets you experiment without cluttering up your development environment with garbage.
J.Ja
* under super rare, extraordinarily unusual circumstances this does happen but it is because something like a temporary "bailout" license was applied to solve an emergency situation, and this should never happen unless you have a complete crisis that needs immediate fixing.
** make sure that you are doing purely EXPERIMENTAL work here, since there is no way to privately get work from a Personal Environment to an Enterprise environment.