I would say that it's still not a fully mature technology. As gaps become known new things emerge to plug those gaps. Istio springs to mind here in terms of mak

I would say that it's still not a fully mature technology. As gaps become known new things emerge to plug those gaps. Istio springs to mind here in terms of making the networking and monitoring side of things easier. The trend I see is that smaller and smaller teams are becoming capable of bigger and bigger things and when it comes to smaller apps that don't need it we're trading some complexity familiar to a large group of people (Kubernetes) for complexity known to only a handful or single individual (Bob's idempotent script for distro $X that only he knows the intricacies of). I consider it fairly remarkable that a single developer today could accomplish, in terms of building and operating a system, what it would have taken a large team of specialists to do even 5 ~ 6 years ago let alone 10 years ago. Now the OPs point is "you don't probably need it" and sure. Maybe you don't. But I would say watch how it shifts the economics of software development in the broader sense and especially over the next few years as the technologies mature.