Redis vs Memcached in 2025: is there any reason to choose Memcached?

i'm in a bit of a debate with a colleague about caching solutions. i tend to gravitate towards redis because it just has so many features: lists, sets, hashes, pub/sub, transactions. it feels like the swiss army knife of in-memory stores. my colleague, though, swears by memcached for pure caching, arguing that its simplicity makes it faster and more reliable for simple get/set operations, where you just need a key-value store without all the extras. is there still a compelling reason to choose memcached in 2025, especially if the use case is purely a distributed cache with simple string key-value pairs? has redis's performance caught up enough that the feature set alone makes it the default choice, even for basic caching, or does memcached still hold an edge in specific scenarios for raw speed and low overhead? keen to hear what others are using and why.