You can make actual docker compose use podman by running a user podman docker socket and setting that as an environment variable (export DOCKER_HOST=unix:///run/user/$UID/podman/podman.sock)
I don't think tar is actually hard, we are just in the time where we externalize more information into resources such as Google. Its the same reason why younger people don't remember routes by name or cardinal direction as much anymore.
side note: $ tldr is much better than man for just getting common stuff done.
I do something similar with rclone and vultr's s3 service. I made an s3 remote in rclone and then a encryption layer remote on top of that.