I do that too, I run everything in rootless podman managed by systemd units it's quite nice. With systemd network activation I could even save the cost of user

I do that too, I run everything in rootless podman managed by systemd units it's quite nice. With systemd network activation I could even save the cost of user space networking, though for my single user use case, it's not really needed and for now I could not bother. I also have Quadlet on my backlog, I'm waiting the release of next stable version of Debian (which I think should be released sometimes this year) as the current version of Debian has a podman slightly too old which doesn't include Quadlet