It's a faulty analogy. VHS/Betamax was important because we don't want two popular formats for distributing consumer content. Any team can choose Kubernetes, V

It's a faulty analogy. VHS/Betamax was important because we don't want two popular formats for distributing consumer content. Any team can choose Kubernetes, VMs, serverless or what-have-you without much trouble. We don't want to have competing solutions that solve the same more narrow deployment goals. Kubernetes is winning its area, so in a way Kubernetes is Betamax as it was superior to VHS technically.