It seems like they haven't gotten to this, don't understand the needs and the potential, or aren't doing this intentionally. My understanding is that Docker maintains what amounts to a wrapper VM with nice integration to enable the workflow. This doesn't exist for Podman as far as I've seen.
On Windows, the WSL2 feature gives you that easy wrapper in a different way. It's sets up and manages the underlying VM although you have to choose your distro etc. Once this is running after a simple setup you are just using Linux from that point on. It's less specialized than how Docker on macOS seems to work.
If someone knows of something that follows the WSL2 approach without VirtualBox or VMware Fusion I'd be all ears. That would be more versatile than how Docker seems to work right now. Docker's business interests probably aligned well with getting a workflow running, so unless someone is motivated to do similar for Podman, you are going to be out of luck. At least recognizing this deficiency would be a start though.
On Windows, the WSL2 feature gives you that easy wrapper in a different way. It's sets up and manages the underlying VM although you have to choose your distro etc. Once this is running after a simple setup you are just using Linux from that point on. It's less specialized than how Docker on macOS seems to work.
If someone knows of something that follows the WSL2 approach without VirtualBox or VMware Fusion I'd be all ears. That would be more versatile than how Docker seems to work right now. Docker's business interests probably aligned well with getting a workflow running, so unless someone is motivated to do similar for Podman, you are going to be out of luck. At least recognizing this deficiency would be a start though.