Does Bricks need a faster dev workflow like ACF has?

I’ve been exploring different Bricks workflows and started wondering how much of our time actually goes into the UI. I keep asking myself if we are building faster or just clicking faster.

With ACF you can define field groups in PHP or JSON and let WordPress pick them up automatically. That made me think about whether something similar could work for Bricks.

Maybe something like:

bricks/
bricks-template-home.json
bricks-css-variables.json
bricks-css-classes.json
bricks-theme-style.json

In theory this could allow editing in VS Code and then refresh the frontend without opening the builder.

Does this kind of workflow make sense for real projects or is the UI still the better place to work?

Curious to hear how others approach it.