I for one, really dislike this drive towards VMs for everything.

VMs are mostly about solving the same problems that operating systems were there to solve in the first place, only slower.

I personally think that part of the problem is the way software is installed and configured by modern package managers and distributions. It makes people see the installed software as part of the operating system almost. If you want two webservers with different configurations you therefore need two operating systems.

The concept for creating a couple of different users and running the software out of each one seems foreign to modern system admin these days.