I'd say that it's good for some scenarios.

It's not an entirely complete Docker alternative, there still being various inconsistencies, especially when there are projects like Docker Compose (which has Podman Compose under development) and even Docker Swarm (for which there is no direct alternative), or when something like Nomad support for Podman is still relatively new: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/plugins/drivers/podman

Even then, what functionality you expect will differ for various folks, so it's going to be an instance: "But it works on my servers (for my workload and my deployments), therefore it's stable!"

Personally, I tolerate the worse architecture of Docker, just because it's widespread, reasonably stable (CLI/API wise) and I can use the same setup for both building and running containers (and even lightweight orchestration). Others might disagree, but at the end of the day use whatever works for you.

Edit: edited the post to clear up the confusion, mistakenly compared Podman with containerd, this probably threw me off: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/kubernetes-workloads-podman-... and https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/compose-kubernetes-podman (it's still not an equivalent to containerd, simply can run workloads described in Kubernetes YAML)

That said, you could probably check out Podman Desktop as well, if interested: https://podman-desktop.io/