It wasn't a suggestion, because it doesn't have all the features that many people utilized in the Docker ecosystem. Like Docker-compose. (Right now on 22 May 2021.)
There's podman-compose which seems to almost work for me, but not completely, yep.
If I would write containers myself from the scratch, I'd definitely try to ensure that podman works. But I'm using containers from other people, so I have to live with that for now.
it's not ready for replacement.