I think this mostly only holds if you use local compute in a portable form factor. Most of my personal development these days is done on my home server - 9995w

I think this mostly only holds if you use local compute in a portable form factor. Most of my personal development these days is done on my home server - 9995wx, 768GB, rtx 6000 pro blackwell GPU in headless mode. My work development happens in a cloud workstation with 64 cores and 128GB of ram but builds are distributed and I can dial up the box size on demand for heavier development. I use laptops practically entirely as network client devices. Browser, terminal window, perhaps a VS Code based IDE with a remote connection to my code. Tailscale on my personal laptop to work anywhere. I'm not limited by local compute, my devices are lightweight, cheap(ish) and replaceable, not an investment.