Not to mention podman's historic[1] lack of compose support (or similar), which is frequently used in CI and local dev environments. I think has really held it back for a lot of folks.
[1]: Apparently initial support planned in version 3.0?
[1]: Apparently initial support planned in version 3.0?
Sadly it doesn't feel as polished as docker-compose, I can only assume it's due to the lack of API. Specifically, podman-compose just translates all the docker-compose.yml file directives into podman cli commands, which doesn't seem to be handled gracefully.