Imagine you manage all this but they change something fundamental and you have to (get everyone else to) reinstall all of it.
Another upside: There is a GCP gcloud one-liner to start a VM for a given Docker image, and the image is designed to work both locally and in a GCP VM, with notebooks in a git repository that gets checked out automatically on container creation, so switching from laptop to 16-core VM to churn through a large dataset from a bucket is pretty seamless.