Follow-up from "Protected Environments - Backend"

The following discussion from !6672 (merged) should be addressed:

• @godfat started a discussion:

  @mayra-cabrera I see we're using this pattern in a few places. Could we please use methods too? The job should actually complain about this. It's not, maybe because coincidentally there's other differences interfering.

  We could do those in a follow up.