VS Code remote in some cases is better than local.

As the remote can be a docker container, so when I have to do some experiment, I create a container takes 5 min to setup. I than can play around, test dozen packages and configs, once I am comfortable commit last version.

If I want to do some quick testing on project by different team, again a local container is setup in 2-10 mins. Once done delete the container and my local system isn't messed up.

Last is obvious use case if you want to test anything on reasonable large data or GPUs. Create a cloud server, get data run your code, tests. Push data to S3 and done.