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I work at a F50 that has a similar home grown solution. The nice thing is team members can customize their local machine however they want! Then for the actual dev env, its standard.

Works really really well when you allow your employees to explore and do what they want locally. Then when things break or go wrong (either I tweak something, or an incompatible Apple update lands) - I can just reset to the same dev env as everyone else.

It's fantastic. Spin up and throw away a dev env that is so much more powerful than my local machine could be (100+ GB RAM machines are a click away).