> The competitors don't exist because incumbency prevents progress. Nobody wants to write a competitor to K8s, because it would be impossible to get people to s

> The competitors don't exist because incumbency prevents progress. Nobody wants to write a competitor to K8s, because it would be impossible to get people to switch away from K8s, because K8s is a billion-dollar ecosystem. Angular was an incumbent and still got toppled - albeit by a project from another tech giant (React). The question is - why hasn't Microsoft or Amazon incubated superior, simpler alternatives to K8s that works best on their respective clouds? The financial incentives are clear to me, but there's a big hole where that product ought to be