For local simple use cases (a couplefew services / dbs), is there something stopping a docker-compose-like tool, maybe Podman + Kubernetes YAML, from being equa

For local simple use cases (a couplefew services / dbs), is there something stopping a docker-compose-like tool, maybe Podman + Kubernetes YAML, from being equally easy to use as docker-compose? For the flaws of Docker, local development is just easy - which is really nice. It concerns me to hear that docker-compose might be dead.