Working locally still matters, and this is from someone who normally works in tmux/nvim. When working on vision and 3D ML work, being able to quickly open a visualizer windows is imperative to understanding what's going on. For Gaussian Splatting, point cloud work, SLAM, etc. you have to have access to a desktop environment to see visualizations; they very rarely work well remotely (even if they have some Jupyter support).

Working remotely, when having to use a desktop environment is painful, no matter the technology. The best tice come up with is using tmux/vim and sunshine/moonlight, but even still I'd rather just have access to everything locally.