We use similar practices in our 3.5 person team; we work via code-server and Aider with our own tooling on VPSs and this gets synced to execution VPSs which run dev versions, a lot of sentry logging and tests (mostly playwright these days). There is also a vps which does builds all day and logs to Sentry too. We can almost instantly get on our own test versions and see what we did, and, over the space of some seconds to minutes we see test and build data coming in. It works incredibly well for many years already. Onboarding people is easy and no one ever has 'it doesn't build on my system' as that's not something we do (you can of course, all scripts are there but why waste the time?).

I grew up with mainframes, minis and unix batch andor multiuser machines; for me this is the best way for business applications. I didn't particularly like the move to local all that much.