I have worked at places where local development was more painful than cloud development. Some of the factors: - Local dev required spinning up a number of res

I have worked at places where local development was more painful than cloud development. Some of the factors: - Local dev required spinning up a number of resources, each of which needed to be regularly updated manually, while cloud dev environments had everything maintained automatically - Much of the development involved IaC, which was easier to test in the cloud - There was a need for collaborative development, and it was easier to do that on cloud dev environments I currently work at a place where local dev is the norm, and it's fine. That said, it is a little funny to me that so many people think EVERY situation should be suitable for local dev. If I'm developing a sufficiently complex application or suite of applications, why should I expect everything to fit on my laptop?