Nice and all, but what about the lessons we learned about running development as local as possible, eliminating the need for remote system access. all that sounds very 90's - 10s. These days you have a local environment that can emulate anything (see docker). Then you write code that interacts with that "anything" basically locally. When you are done with the code you can test and deploy - there is no need for remote access.

VMs should not be ssh'd into anymore - they should just be stamped over with the latest code drop. I mean did we not learn anything from the entire devops/ci/cd/immutability lessons of the last 10 years?