Sortaaaa, it’s pretty weak from what I remember and mostly served to give you a reason to explore more of the sandbox and use the different features of the game.

According to the reviews I read on steam, the recent update just didn’t feel good direction-wise. People apparently wanted more QoL. To be fair I don’t have the game nor have I played it. That’s just the gist I got

Pass thru is in fact possible in docker. The example compose for Frigate has an entry that specifically passes the Coral device through to the container. I use this exact setup. Also, docker is not a VM