Could I get some feedback on this?

I'm not sure, it would feel a bit "too magical" for the default behavior to not match reality. Is it so bad to have to set the variable manually / go through the network?

I'm not sure, it would feel a bit "too magical" for the default behavior to not match reality.

I don’t see an issue with this. This is test code and people will expect mocks, etc. that don’t match reality. Right now the default behavior does not match what is run on CI, which is worse, I think. I was very confused when my tests where failing on CI but not locally. Using the recording is also faster and more reliable for for local development.

Is it so bad to have to set the variable manually / go through the network?
Of course it’s easy to set the environment variable. But this is nowhere documented for new contributors and even I sometimes forget.