ex-coworker of mine authored this today https://www.mikenikles.com/blog/dev-environments-in-the-cloud-are-a-half-baked-solution. I’m very much in agreeance that reproducible developer environments is a technique/practice and not something that can be purchased as a product feature.

I agree hybrid is best for the exact same reason mentioned if your connection goes out your out of luck, devbox is interesting but im not a fan of nix, sucks that gitpod is pulling a bait and switch 😞 , I like https://coder.com/ though 😉