Podman has a "newer" pull policy: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-create.1.html#pull-policy which isn't offered by controller.

It would allow to always keep the image actual while coping with bad network (or other challenges), especially important in Edge use cases, where connection isn't a given (or even if you just face the throttling introduced in the docker hub).

A timeout parameter might even be of advantage in case the network isn't completely broken but only too slow.

I created a similar ticket for navigator which also doesn't offer the option: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-navigator/issues/1741