This is definitely still a thing.
Related links:
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I had to build a crazy hack with a wp alias that runs Local’s variables before every wp cli call. Dot-Files/wplocal at master · jtsternberg/Dot-Files · GitHub (and Dot-Files/_wplocalgenerate at master · jtsternberg/Dot-Files · GitHub)
LocalWP team, when will this be addressed?