No you didn't get this right, although I'm sure you do know what the right explanation is and are exaggerating for effect. Operators and sidecars are definitel

No you didn't get this right, although I'm sure you do know what the right explanation is and are exaggerating for effect. Operators and sidecars are definitely not the "new model" but a pretty old concept with various names and are effective for what they do. You can simply call it a layer of abstraction, the same way NGINX can serve as a reverse proxy to abstract authentication and load balancing while your app just serves HTTP requests.