That's the direction container runtimes are trending

Amazon has been doing it with Firecracker for a while and Kata containers is another popular one

https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers

I dunno, why own a car when you could ride your bike instead? They’re just different things and people may choose to use one over the other for a variety of reasons.

> Why not run a proper virtual machine?

Extra 'overhead' and heaviness (perceived or real).