I wouldn't recommend anyone manage the control plane except after hitting massive scale and being able to dedicate engineers to it full time. For a startup, I w

I wouldn't recommend anyone manage the control plane except after hitting massive scale and being able to dedicate engineers to it full time. For a startup, I would doubly recommend against it. Thats the fastest way to give back all the time you've saved in using k8s in the first place. Yes its more expensive, thats the tradeoff and I 100% believe its worth it.