While the manual SSH setup is cumbersome and could be improved with a DevSpaces extension in the future, one feature is desperately missing:

When using the terminal, one drops into the vscode server container instead of the devspaces container. This container doesn't contain any useful CLIs and is therefore useless. I haven't found a way to switch to the udi container.

I get why this is the case, the sshd server runs in the vscode container instead of the udi container. Thus the user is dropped into the vscode container as well.

A simple cli way of switching containers would be a great start.

Developing using the local vscode instance simplifies extension management and allows us to reuse extensions from our local installation. A one click to open the local IDE, similar to Github Codespaces would be a game changer for us.