We’ve had this discussion for other versions of SharePoint so I am interested to see if it’s changed now a coupe of years have passed. Do you develop with SharePoint on a desktop / laptops or are you using a VM in the Azure? If you are using a physical machine what spec are you running?
I have a dedicated development environment comprised of hosted VM’s that I RDP into depending on my client configuration. You can get the same type of environment configured in Azure pretty easily.