Rootless exists in Docker, yes, but as OP said, it's not first-class. The setup process is clunky, things break more often. In podman it just works, and podman

Rootless exists in Docker, yes, but as OP said, it's not first-class. The setup process is clunky, things break more often. In podman it just works, and podman is leading with features like quadlets, which make docker services just services like any other.