Well, yeah. But it's still a snowflake, a dev environment with build/deployment configuration and needs that are significantly different from production cloud e

Well, yeah. But it's still a snowflake, a dev environment with build/deployment configuration and needs that are significantly different from production cloud environments. And it requires a lot of setup, and a lot of knowledge to do it well (which I actually have). Writing a bunch of automation to hide the fact that I'm working on a snowflake is not the same as not working on a snowflake. Or, I can do my development in the cloud, in an environment explicitly more similar than my desktop environment. Other than aesthetics, I don't see why this is a Bad Thing. It's making my setup easier and more consistent, and it's making my development environment portable to whatever system I want to work from, rather than binding it to a piece of hardware.