It seems that Docker and a lot of the containerization ideas are naive and unconsidered re-implementations of ideas from Smalltalk, applied by those who never bothered to study the past.

But hey, that’s how computing works, right? Some twenty-two-year-old re-inventing something that had been done better and more sensibly thirty years ago, IPOing with a busted-ass product, then retiring at 30 with a few hundred mil and the world no better off?