I also think there’s a place for k8s in a lot of orgs, but having administered it for a while I think people expect more than is delivered in the managed offeri

I also think there’s a place for k8s in a lot of orgs, but having administered it for a while I think people expect more than is delivered in the managed offerings. k8s moves fast and you need to stay up to date. If you want to use k8s you have to be an organisation that is prepared to maintain it and update your apps around its maintenance. The managed offerings especially don’t let you stand still: they kick off old versions of k8s as they are deprecated.