From what I understand, the labour/complexity in K8S lies not with the deployment, but with managing said deployment over the long term. This is a real problem

From what I understand, the labour/complexity in K8S lies not with the deployment, but with managing said deployment over the long term. This is a real problem for system architects/security professionals that need to maintain a bird's eye view of the system - a job that gets increasingly complex with every additional microservice once you hit critical mass. This is not to say that K8S does not work - they do, but for certain problems. The cargo-cult mentality, however, threatens to introduce complexity in systems where there is need for none.