This is exactly why we open sourced workerd and built miniflare. Local dev with the actual Cloudflare Workers runtime, not “something like it.”
Other places I’ve worked told devs “no, you’re wrong to want this. Want what we give you.”
Never a winning strategy.
It matters more than I'm giving credit for. That's why I'm advising companies to bring a cloud like experience to the local laptop. That could mean cloud hosted control planes, with the data plane running locally. It can be the best of both worlds. Docker Desktop is attempting to do this.