[mschuster91]

> IMO it's really rare that your dev box's user wouldn't be 1000:1000 on native Linux or WSL 2.

Any major company using LDAP/AD or other forms of centralized user management won't be able to make that guarantee.

> In production you also have full control over the uid:gid of your deploy user.

If you're running in an un-managed environment, yes - managed hosting of any kind generally doesn't provide these guarantees.