The only nightmare is the same one as with npm and pip etc.: dependencies hiding behind other dependencies and having badly documented charts being used that do

The only nightmare is the same one as with npm and pip etc.: dependencies hiding behind other dependencies and having badly documented charts being used that don't share basic lifecycle information. Kubernetes itself has always been fine, just like a bare network or bare OS has been, but when you start stacking stuff built by other people (especially when the stuff isn't of the best quality) it just goes downhill from there. Perhaps the actual nightmare is inadequate quality control... but that's not really specific to packaging or shared components in Kubernetes.