[JeremyNT]

Docker compose is still really good for the use case that you want to lump a bunch of services together and go. It's great for local development and it's just fine for deploying a set of services to a single host.

The "issues" with compose are 1) it doesn't make Docker any money, thus doesn't see much in the way of enhancements, and 2) it doesn't even try to do the enterprisey things that Kubernetes does.

Also, you can drop podman-compose in and run most docker-compose files with no or minimal modifications, so it's not like docker-compose itself is even unique.