I agree that developer experience is paramount. I've actively made choices to choose tooling with better developer experience (Rust and Elixir over C++ and Erlang, for instance), and Podman will need to have Debian/Ubuntu packages eventually. If you're on Fedora, openSUSE, or RHEL, though, Podman is a yum/dnf/zypper install away and works quite well (better than Docker in my experience wrt SELinux issues).