I'm fine with this, honestly. I'd prefer more devs do this instead of pushing back releases at the last minute or forcing their teams to crunch.
I'm in the same spot. Ended up just buying a cheap SSD and dual booting with windows 10. It's definitely not as convenient as it could be, but it works perfectly.
I've had trouble logging in on liftoff, it doesn't recognize any of the instances I have accounts on.
I'm fine with this, honestly. I'd prefer more devs do this instead of pushing back releases at the last minute or forcing their teams to crunch.