probably but a ton of services have popped up in the last 6 months specifically to help mitigate that

localhost reading env from the cloud and other solutions

to me it suggested that I’m already late on that idea, but I can understand how that puts me deeper in a bubble than others

I've been using SOPS, which dates back to 2015. It's well tested, robust, supports a ton of great backends. What other solutions have you seen? I'm actively looking around in the space!