That has nothing to do with kubernetes, and a lot to do with management of the company. I might be biased, because my first commercial use of kubernetes was to

That has nothing to do with kubernetes, and a lot to do with management of the company. I might be biased, because my first commercial use of kubernetes was to reduce infrastructure spend and optimize the hell of what we have. From my PoV, the "big company" narrative is just what happens when the big company notices the cost of spinning separate VMs for everything.