Whats wrong with running small deploys? It takes less than half a day to set up. Its honestly way easier to get a reproducible k8s setup than some hand rolled

Whats wrong with running small deploys? It takes less than half a day to set up. Its honestly way easier to get a reproducible k8s setup than some hand rolled thing even if you run a single pod. Or do you mean a small team should not use unmanaged k8s?