It's really disturbing that there's a group of these CEO/investor types that are openly white nationalists, and they're joining forces. I'll never touch any of their products, and I hope they continue to expose themselves on social media.

Rootless Podman (and rootless Docker for that matter) is not difficult to set up automatically. There is a little complexity involved, namely in configuring subuid and subgid mappings, but not much.

That said, I think Arch Linux itself has a culture that values the wrong kind of simplicity (implementation simplicity) that perversely leads to a failure to adequately grapple with inherent complexity. This leads to brittle implementations, "buyer beware" norms, "you should have run the notes", "this command should never be used", etc. Omarchy inherits all of that from Arch. It also, it seems, carried its own perverse notion of "simplicity".