I trialed for a job where the CTO was convinced of dev environments in kube as "the way to work". Everyone else was at least ambivalent. I joined, tried to make some changes that would let me run things locally. Every time I got pushback about using the dev environments instead.

It took me a couple of days to get a supervisor-based setup working locally. I was the only person on the team who would run the backend and frontend when trying things out, because nobody was actually using the dev environments fully anyways. There was no buy-in for the dev environment!

I really feel like if you are in a position to determine tooling, it's so much more helpful to lean into whatever people on the ground want to use. Obviously there are times when the people on the ground don't care, but if you're spending your sweat and tears to put the square peg into the square hole suddenly you're the person with superpowers, and not the person pushing their pet project.

And sometimes that's just "wrap my thing with your thing".