A company I know writes software for small banks and telcos (which means no cloud) and has decided to switch to a Microservices architecture and all deployment

A company I know writes software for small banks and telcos (which means no cloud) and has decided to switch to a Microservices architecture and all deployment concerns of clients were waved away with "Kubernetes takes care of it". Now the poor IT teams will have to learn K8s really quickly, and my guess is that they will fall back to Docker on VMs with compose as it simpler - Kubernetes is much more complicated to deploy than the 20 containers that the clients actually care about. But the IT teams of these clients they are not going to be happy over the whole ordeal. When stories like this seems to me like a huge indication that K8s is at the top of the hype cycle. It only is suitable for maybe 5% of on-premise IT organizations, and the cloud is not for everyone (fortunately and unfortunately).