You'll never get the same environment locally as you do in prod. That's why you have staging (you do have staging, right?).

It's better to make the environment as close as possible to prod without adding massive inconvenience but docker both adds inconvenience and forces you to use it in production (which entails a whole other set of headaches) if you want close environmental parity, and even then, since it's lightweight virtualization there are hundreds of things which can behave differently between dev and prod.

IMHO you either want very close environmental parity (in which case full virtualization is the way to go) or you don't, in which case running locally is fine.