> Your whole argument boils down to "don't write shit software" (...)
No. My whole argument is open your eyes, and look at what you're doing. Make it make sense.
Does it make sense to launch 50 instances locally to be able do work on a service? No. That's a stupid way of going about a problem.
What would make sense? Launch the services you need to change, of course. Whatever you need to debug, that's what you need to run locally. Everything else you consume it from a cloud environment that's up and running.
That's it. Simple.
If there's something preventing you from doing just that then that's an artiicifal constraint that you created for yourself, and thus that you need to fix. We're talking about things like auth. Once you fix that, go back to square one.