Could be. I know docker and this looked like a nail.

this coming from someone who used podman for years for hours for development every day.

podman is cancer, it's way better to use docker rootless.

podman will break if you sneeze at it, and the only recourse you will find in github is to podman system reset which stinks of bad programming.

docker rootless never breaks, podman may die if you cancel a download because the devs were either inexperienced or bad and instead of protecting the state with atomic filesystem operations they leave dirty files in working directories which make it fail in random and unexpected ways.