It is really weird that the AWS Load Balancer Controller isn't an EKS Addon, and the permissions requirements being in the base requirements for EKS. Also, the

It is really weird that the AWS Load Balancer Controller isn't an EKS Addon, and the permissions requirements being in the base requirements for EKS. Also, the only officially supported CNI is the VPC CNI. And if you want to use EKS-A (EKS-Anywhere) it's even more effort to do the AWS IRSA setup.