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It's tough to debug issues when you can't run on the same hardware directly.
There's a reason that arm support in open source software has exploded in the past few years, and it's because of apple silicon.
I'll agree that it's easier now, with most developers using higher level runtimes, but someone's got to get those runtimes working, and it's much easier to develop if you have a laptop running that hardware.
Raspberry Pi also brought arm64 to a lot more people.