There actually is, Hashicorp Nomad fits solidly in between those two options. Nomad is way simpler to get a cluster up and running, has a great configuration s

There actually is, Hashicorp Nomad fits solidly in between those two options. Nomad is way simpler to get a cluster up and running, has a great configuration syntax (I'll take HCL over YAML anyday) and had first class Terraform/Consul/Vault integrations. Onboarding devs is fairly straightforward, if they can write a docker-compose.yml, it's an easy transition to a nomad job specification. It took me by myself ~4 months to get our current hashistack(Vault/Consul/Nomad) stood up using Terraform+ansible. Two members of my team have been working to replace the hashistack with a self hosted K8's deployment and they just went over the 1 year mark and we still do not have something capable of hosting the workload currently running on the Hashistack. This got a little long winded but I feel like this "it's docker compose or K8's, take your pick" mentality had led to a bunch of needless time being spent by smaller teams/companies on solutions that just aren't right for them.