Maybe. I guess you could argue that before you find product market fit and your survivability is at stake, its better to be as ruthless as possible and cut down

Maybe. I guess you could argue that before you find product market fit and your survivability is at stake, its better to be as ruthless as possible and cut down on any infra costs. All startups are not the same though. If the startup has obtained any kind of reasonable Series A, it totally makes sense to invest in kubernetes, and allow your engineering team to essentially pull in literally any kind of dependency, test it quickly, and find out if it works or not. It acts as a catalyst that would let you churn out new products really quickly, and as such its an invaluable tool to allow your startup to move quickly. If you work in enterprise environments and are able to use kubernetes, you are set to really shock your organization with how quickly you can move. I've seen this same situation play out in a few orgs and its really amusing how stupidly productive it allows engineers who learn it to be, and how quickly they get things done and get more responsibilities, promotions etc.