I guess it depends on what to prioritize. In a world of high speed internet, I prioritize fast onboarding time and common developer environments with minimal fr

I guess it depends on what to prioritize. In a world of high speed internet, I prioritize fast onboarding time and common developer environments with minimal friction. But yes, it does add a network requirement. However VSCode remote dev works well even with a poor connection ime (coffee shop wifi). I guess it's less important when working in mostly hermetic languages/runtimes like Java. But for things with native dependencies or lots of required tooling where local setup can be a large pain, it really does help a lot. For the dev it becomes: Install VSCode, request VM, done.