Because everyone and their dog insists on using way over complicated micro service architectures. Wages does not count as cost of goods sold, so who cares abou

Because everyone and their dog insists on using way over complicated micro service architectures. Wages does not count as cost of goods sold, so who cares about a couple of extra hires? Funding is easy. Also you severely underestimate the amount of work that goes under DevOps. Everything from build servers to test and security infrastructure is usually handled by DevOps. It's a massive surface area and it would be way worse without kubernetes.