Something I've felt is missing is a developer orchestration layer that makes it really easy to define the set of services like a docker-compose but just as easy

Something I've felt is missing is a developer orchestration layer that makes it really easy to define the set of services like a docker-compose but just as easy to switch implementations between container, source, or remote. Sometimes you need them all from source to debug across the stack, when you don't you might need a local container to avoid pollution from a test env, sometimes it is just fine to port-forward to a test env and save yourself the local resources.