At Coherence (withcoherence.com) we are building a slightly different twist on this where one configuration can drive different environments across the SDLC - Cloud IDE for dev, full-stack branch previews, CI/CD, staging/qa/UAT, production - with deployments in your own AWS/GCP account.

We generally see a ton of velocity increase in dev from teams that adopt the Cloud IDE alongside the rest, as exhibited by lots of comments. Internally, we dogfood them 100% and the team would never go back to the old "local-first" ways. So we are using them and love them. The key qualities we love are ephemerality, parallelism, and accessibility. But in general there is a lot of resistance for various reasons, as seen in many comments here.

We wrote up some of our POV in our docs here: https://docs.withcoherence.com/docs/explanations/remote-deve...

[I'm a cofounder of Coherence]