My experience is the same with the caveat that it made life somewhat easier for the devops team (of course, I was in the devops team here). All the common devop

My experience is the same with the caveat that it made life somewhat easier for the devops team (of course, I was in the devops team here). All the common devops tasks were much easier (scaling, health checks, etc). Unfortunately, the least common ones were harder and lacked documentation to boot at least at first, until we got our own documentation to refer to. To add to that, I think there's a very specific way you must do things to get K8s "right" and reap benefits. Or maybe it's a question of scale. There were honestly times when I thought maybe we could've stuck with good old servers. When I left the team was trying to redo microservices---this time properly---by introducing event queues and pubsub and finally split that database. Love that workplace but I'm honestly glad I didn't get to participate in that transition. Sounds like "artificial complexity" as you put it. Would love to hear if they pulled it off though or not, a project postmortem basically.