@miah Yes. IMHO, it also tracks with the explosion in dev environments that intentionally outpace Linux distros. Forcing devs to break from the regularity of the distro ultimately made "IDK, just make a Linux entirely for the app" necessary.
That said, as a firmware dev, containers are great for keeping regularity of build environment across my team without forcing us to all use a single outdated Linux distro because some vendor wants that. So, yeah, I'm a hypocrite.