I'm 100% the opposite side of this argument. Running your entire stack locally is a silly trend that cost us a decade of productivity. In the early to late 2000's the remote-dev approach was very common. It wasn't "push a button and you have a dev instance!" easy but it yielded similar results.
I'm slowly getting to the point of "I want my computers to be a thin client around some config files". Treat your computer like cattle, rather than a pet, etc etc.
Same. I'm considering using a flatpak for this as it seems to have an interesting feature set to build a pre-setup development environment on top of. Just want my shell setup, tooling configs and a few other things bundled up in an easy to use fashion.
Currently I just have a git repo with my setup mostly in it (sans executables) with a way to get it going on a new machine. It works but is rather hackish and requires a bit of work to keep in sync.
