It takes quite a bit of work to optimize your deployments and resource requests to get good bin packing/utilization of the hardware. If you do it right there ca

It takes quite a bit of work to optimize your deployments and resource requests to get good bin packing/utilization of the hardware. If you do it right there can be pretty good savings for larger deployments. If your scale isn't high enough though I think you're right, it's often not worth the complexity and Kubernetes' overhead might actually be detrimental.