all the problems you expressed with docker aren’t real problems.

I think you may not like it because you don’t know how to use it.

don’t like how often a maintainer updates their images? build your own.

don’t like having multiple bridge interfaces on your host? configure and manage networks within docker and assign them to your containers.

don’t like having dozens of containers with random names? use docker compose. bonus, you can set up networking with it even easier.