You bring up an excellent point. As of now, it is impossible for me to run my company's backend ecosystem on my machine locally. What we do could easily be done by one simple monolith, but our eng. lead is obsessed with overengineered microservice architecture, so nobody can actually develop locally. Everything on the backend is done by a bunch of lambdas behind an API gateway.

I got so burnt out developing in that environment that I asked to become a pure frontend dev so that I wouldn't have to deal with it anymore.