I set up a new dev environment when I buy a new machine or join a new company. For company environments hopefully there is a script to do the setup, or an exis

I set up a new dev environment when I buy a new machine or join a new company. For company environments hopefully there is a script to do the setup, or an existing environment you can pull down or otherwise create trivially. If there isn't it's usually a day 1 thing and you're getting paid, so hard to complain. For personal stuff I have environment files in a git repo and install what I want as I need it. It's not that difficult to manage, certainly not hours. For provisioning new machines like CI/CD runners and so on, your project should have a configure script to do everything automatically.