There are companies trying to provide this - I don't know if anyone is doing it very successfully yet, but Microk8s, k3s, etc are all basically "distros" of kub

There are companies trying to provide this - I don't know if anyone is doing it very successfully yet, but Microk8s, k3s, etc are all basically "distros" of kubernetes for different targets. I think part of the issue is that many of the bigger players want you to use their managed k8s solution and not just give you their setup - I think that's a temporary thing. A few of the big boons of k8s is the ability to be multi-cloud, and vendors are losing out on a revenue stream by not embracing that (though, AWS has a new multi-cloud k8s thing, so maybe they get it).