The problem is that the tooling for creating, importing, and managing images is not as good with systemd vs Podman/Docker. There's also no clear path to import images from the Docker ecosystem, at least as far as user experience goes. I know how to do it, but the number of extra steps involved always drives me back to Podman.

I don't really find them that bad but I'm still going to maintain my "different strokes for different folks" position. Might be bad for you and good for others. More options isn't a bad thing