I focus on building the application rather than figuring out someone else preferred method for how I should work?

I use Docker Compose locally, Kubernetes in the cloud

I run in hot-reload locally, I build for production

I often nuke my database locally, but I run it HA in production

It is very rare to use the same technology locally (or the same way) as in production

There is no "next", there is a whole world of people running LLMs locally on their computer and they are far more likely to switch between models on a whim every few days.

Relax. Not everything in this world was built exactly for you. You almost seem to have a problem with this.