I don't understand why it's so popular to run the docker daemon as root.
Rootless mode seems to support all the same features, but is obviously more secure than the "run everything as root" mode. In fact, most of the CVE's mentioned would allow an attacker to escalate to the privilege of the user running docker, instead of escalating to he root user.
Comparing the security of rootless-podman to rootful-docker is an absurd (and obviously unfair) comparison.