Personally, I've found Bazel's tooling and dependency management to be extremely aggressive at pushing you to online-only development as your project scales in size. A company I worked for that used it lost multiple person-days for every engineer they had when Covid hit and the VPN went to crap.

It's great at being able to offload work to a remote server, but in my opinion that should never be the only way you can get work done. Local development should always be the default, with remote execution being an _option_ when available.