[epolanski]

I think you're seeing too much into this.

What matters is user, in this case developer experience.

Having reproducible environments shareable with a link is a statement to how far we are heading with web technologies and what can be achieved.

The browser is the last lingua franca of computing we have, and that's a reason for cherishing such advances, not bring back 40 years old debates of different OSs having different APIs and capabilities.