@roadriverrail IMHO, that tracks. Personally I find that VMs/etc. are EXCEEDINGLY USEFUL for dev.
By the same token: they are the OPPOSITE of what I ever want in prod.
For CI frameworks & such? Yes, please: I will take performance hits for some ease of reproducibility on recreating bare build environments to make sure codes' assumptions are doing what they need to be doing.
Alas, too many took the "ease of dev" into Ops & there were & are GOOD REASONS to not EVER cross those streams.
@miah