Why not just use podman at this point?

They are adopting to containerd standard, not sure why negative sentiment

Where did you see that? I just did a deep dive into podman/quadlets/bootc/composefs and never once seen a mention of that. A google search also didn’t bring anything like that up.

I think the "They" mentioned was Docker, not Podman. That Docker was adopting the containerd standard.

Jup that’s definitely it, not sure how I got it that wrong.

It's not just you. I interpreted it similarly