Docker and docker compose do make it incredibly easy to start everything that's required for local development and testing. Your service A needs B and C? Grab those images of B and C and run them all on your machine. The only limitation is the amount of RAM you have available locally.

And if you think a bit about your Dockerfiles (ie. have the layers set-up to take advantage of caching, have icecc+ccache mounts for c++ projects to distribute compilation and cache results, have mounts for apt or other package manager cache downloaded packages that you use) the local image rebuilds can be quite fast. Those are the little tricks to make your life with docker less miserable.