The other main improvement of Podman over Docker is that Podman is daemonless and therefor is incredibly lightweight and portable.
And I don't have the energy for the team meeting to discuss a change.
And honestly docker compose has been ridiculously stable for us. 2+ services on seperate servers behind haproxy has been as stable as our Kubernetes Cluster for a fraction of the (intellectual) cost.
I mean, if you have zero experience with systemd, then yes. By contrast, if you've ever worked with any systemd unit files at all, then all the "systemd stuff" will be very familiar.
Which, if you're doing sysadmin type things on almost (e.g. not Alpine) any mainstream Linux distro in 2026, you should expect to encounter systemd unit files in your day-to-day.