It was a contrived example given k8s is a ripe source of jargon and engineering rabbitholes/boondoggles, though I guess I could envision a real situation where

It was a contrived example given k8s is a ripe source of jargon and engineering rabbitholes/boondoggles, though I guess I could envision a real situation where some bad choices about which workloads run on which nodes wind up impacting application performance, which then results in over-provisioning of resources as a bandaid fix.