They also allow you to package up and share your entire development environment and all the tooling you use with it. That means that someone coming into a proj

They also allow you to package up and share your entire development environment and all the tooling you use with it. That means that someone coming into a project has nothing to setup on their local machine - runtimes, compilers, etc. You can use them for this reason without doing remote dev. But yes for remote dev you wouldn't even need to setup docker locally, and you're able to develop on a different architecture.