Why I Don’t Want Docker to Be the Default Deploy Path

Docker is good software. I want to say that up front because the internet has a special talent for turning every tooling opinion into a cage match. I use Docker. I like Docker for databases, repeatable CI jobs, weird dependency stacks, internal services, and anything where I need a clean system image that behaves the same everywhere. But I do not want Docker to be the default deploy path for every web app. Sometimes I just want to put a small app on a VPS and have it run. That should feel boring