If running your own infrastructure is a strongly desired option, people will do the work to make it easier to host your own k8s cluster. I agree it's not there

If running your own infrastructure is a strongly desired option, people will do the work to make it easier to host your own k8s cluster. I agree it's not there yet (I'm the primary person for our team running several self-hosted on-prem k8s clusters) but I can see work is already happening to make it easier.