As a counter-point, for anyone who has used kubernetes, trying to go to anything else feels like "kubernetes-lite" and very, very often requires duct-taping the

As a counter-point, for anyone who has used kubernetes, trying to go to anything else feels like "kubernetes-lite" and very, very often requires duct-taping the disparate parts together because they weren't designed to be one ecosystem. If one's use-case fits within the 20% on offer of AWS's "20/80 featureset," and one enjoys the interactions with AWS, that's great. To each their own. But I can assure you with the highest confidence that there are a group of folks who run kubernetes not because of resume driven development but because it is a lot easier to reason about and manage workloads upon it. I know about the pain of getting clusters _started_, but once they're up, I find their world easier to keep in my head.