I don't see anywhere that you've explained how the original article "went way over the author's head", and your examples of suitable small project vs non-suitab

I don't see anywhere that you've explained how the original article "went way over the author's head", and your examples of suitable small project vs non-suitable aren't in the original article at all, you just decided all of that yourself. The original article concludes with "It's my contention that Kubernetes also makes sense for small deployments and is both easy-to-use and inexpensive today". This article contends that it's not at all easy to use and price-wise he hasn't compared like-with-like.