I think the point is that not using Docker is easier, simpler, cheaper and better than using Docker.

Unless it is not, then you should use Docker.

But many (all?) of us have had the experience of a manager insisting on some "new thing" (LLMs are the current fad of the day) and if we are not using it we are falling behind. That is not true, as we all know.

It is very hard for the money people to manage the tech stack, but they need to, it is literally their job (at the highest level). We desperately need more engineers, who are suited (I am not!) to go into management