I would expand your point to add that another missing key part of dev on big distributed platform is being able to run parts of the system locally.
For some shop it is a lot harder than a simple docker-compose (think of envs with 10 or 100 of micro-services), any laptop cannot handle such load and it is critical for devs to work on the machine, otherwise you lose a lot of time with shared dev envs, SSH tunnels or rsync...
I agree that CI pipelines are a pain in a distributed system but I heard more complains from devs not being able to test locally some new feature in serviceA that depends on 10 other services + DBs to work.
Running locally is great but I would already be happy if I could step through a CICD pipeline with a debugger. This includes stepping though the services the pipeline calls. Also include breakpoints.
