I worked on a project recently that did their own roll-your-own equivalent. It was in python and many of the devs didn't have a python env installed. The leaders provided everyone with an image with the env, Pycharm, and assorted configs all pre-installed. You just needed to redirect DISPLAY 0. There were a few teething moments but once it was running, it worked well.

I can see something that might help standardize setting that up being very useful.