Comment by benatkin

> The out of the box registry does very little and has a very poor user experience.

I think this is indirectly what people are complaining about. Having a free registry mitigates that. So they aren't far off track.

It's true we shouldn't be bitter about Docker. They did a lot to improve the development ecosystem. We should try to avoid picking technologies in the future that aren't scalable in both directions though.

For example, PostgreSQL works well for a 1GB VPS containing it and the web server for dozens of users, and it also works well for big sites. With MongoDB the VPS doesn't work so well.