It doesn't help that most of the open source solutions to deploy a cluster are either poorly engineered (e.g. kubespray) or poorly maintained (e.g. kubeadm). Yo

It doesn't help that most of the open source solutions to deploy a cluster are either poorly engineered (e.g. kubespray) or poorly maintained (e.g. kubeadm). You are on to something... organizations/people that have the capability and resources to make the toolings to manage Kubernetes setup complexity seem to think they're much better off if they charge for it.