Honestly just the debug shell alone is worth a good amount of $. You can remotely run shell commands on your deployed docker container and install packages that are not available in the base image without modifying the base image which can be a life saver.
Let alone the local resource monitor, increased, performance, automated local domains (no more complicated docker network settings to get your app working with local host), and more.
I basically use (orbstack) docker containers as light weight VM, easily accessible through multiple shells and they shutdown when nothing is running anymore.
I use them for development isolation? Or when I need to run some tool. It mounts the current directory, so your container is chrooted to that project.
