While that would certainly impact production, it would be a bit strange for development environments to be stateful in the same way. Those not immediately involved in dealing with the stateful issue seemingly should be able to continue with their work away from production systems just fine.

Although in this case the build broke because the last committer didn't have authorization to deploy to production. The "fix" was giving him permission to deploy in the future. It is not clear why the developers going about their regular day wouldn't naturally resolve the broken build.