I just rarely see people tackling greenfield problems with the discipline to choose to do Kubernetes without also choosing to do "distributed" in a broader, com

I just rarely see people tackling greenfield problems with the discipline to choose to do Kubernetes without also choosing to do "distributed" in a broader, complexity-multiplying way. If not for Kubernetes (and particularly Kube + cloud offerings) I really doubt they'd do all the setup necessary to get a bunch of distributed systems/services running with such horizontal sprawl.