I dunno if I'm getting older or if this is as silly as it seems. You don't like pre-live because it doesn't have parity with production, so you use a developer

I dunno if I'm getting older or if this is as silly as it seems. You don't like pre-live because it doesn't have parity with production, so you use a developers laptop? What??? I stopped reading at that point because that's pretty indicative of either a specific niche or a poorly thought out problem/solution set