Well, I guess it's subjective - but if you didn't have docker-compose I would have a whole lot more questions about how you are managing all the running service

Well, I guess it's subjective - but if you didn't have docker-compose I would have a whole lot more questions about how you are managing all the running services, storing configuration, defining networks, monitoring health of containers, defining volumes, port mappings etc etc. It may be "just a python package" but so is Django and docker is "just a go package" :-)