Your argument is about complexity but it doesn’t really speak to kubernetes itself. You can have some dead simple architecture on top of k8s. Hosting your own

Your argument is about complexity but it doesn’t really speak to kubernetes itself. You can have some dead simple architecture on top of k8s. Hosting your own k8s though, that’s pretty complex, but get that working (or have your cloud provider just host a cluster for you) and things can be pretty darned simple.