The most of major distros ship podman in their repositories. Just use your package manager to install podman.

And these versions are often our of date, which is important given that podman is in active a development and you want to be using the latest version.

I don't understand what the issue is. Don't use an LTS distro if you want up to date software. Fedora and Arch are up to date for Podman. Alpine seems to be one minor version behind.

I want stability for the system and a newer podman version. I do this all the time with docker, install an LTS distro and then add the official docker repos.