> as far as Podman it's all I use for all of my server environments and I like it a lot better than Docker. It's simpler without all the weird "Dockerish" things getting in the way. Not having a monolithic server hang the whole machine due to a misbehaving container is well worth it.

Podman-compose was feature-lacking and beta even when podman already had its 3rd major release, while the communitcation was that "Podman is a drop-in replacement for Docker". It just wasn't a drop-in at all for all compose users. People either stopped considering Podman or enablded the socket daemon, so that they are still able to use docker-compose. But this goes against the design ideas podman had.

Feels as half-baked as Ingnition, which also still feels very bare-bone, as if there's no financial interest to enhance it further.