The Kubernetes authors were explicit in stating that stateless workloads were their design target, and it is somewhat obvious that StatefulSets were a concessio

The Kubernetes authors were explicit in stating that stateless workloads were their design target, and it is somewhat obvious that StatefulSets were a concession, so this isn't terribly surprising to me. I have a feeling that OpenShift handles stateful workloads more gracefully due to their enterprise-oriented customer base, but I have nothing to back that.