I use Kubernetes extensively and the greatest benefit to me is that it became an implicit standard API interface for any Container type workload. This means I

I use Kubernetes extensively and the greatest benefit to me is that it became an implicit standard API interface for any Container type workload. This means I can launch my clusters on AWS//GCP, on prem or any other cloud provider and use the same high level objects to deploy my distributed application. I will agree that a lot of people go overkill with Kubernetes and you absolutely don't need Kubernetes to deploy a simple web server. As usual use the right tool for the job.