Comment by ahartmetz

IMO screw that. It's maybe a good way to build software in exactly one environment for exactly one environment, deployment to a corporate server fleet.

Consider a Linux desktop distro: if every little binary (out of order of magnitude 1000) acted like the center of the universe with gigabytes of build environment and "opinions" galore instead of portability, builds would take much more resources than they already do and parts wouldn't necessarily work together.