Now that buildah & podman are mature, would it be simpler to just use them in a container?

With minor tweaks LXD works just as well or better for this, with a polished UX.

the lengths people will go instead of learning proper linux administration for the 21st century.

this article reads like a joke for anyone who knows systemd and machined (not even need to understand the underlying kernel apis). all the isolation, process management etc is there.

instead they go around and reimplement (badly) everything so it might work with docker.