I agree it’s oversold for most use cases, clouds do have pretty decent networking after all.
Having said that as an Australian with sub par internet at home, I do appreciate not making images gratuitously large. Just because SDK images won’t ever be deployed to prod doesn’t mean you shouldn’t strip out unnecessary junk.
Similarly, just yesterday I had to go home from the cafe I was working in because I had to push a docker image. The wifi just wasn't fast enough for that, though plenty fast for googling documentation
Having said that as an Australian with sub par internet at home, I do appreciate not making images gratuitously large. Just because SDK images won’t ever be deployed to prod doesn’t mean you shouldn’t strip out unnecessary junk.