Not really. Those are two areas you need to really understand when things go south. In Kubernetes you "solve" a lot of application complexity by abstracting it

Not really. Those are two areas you need to really understand when things go south. In Kubernetes you "solve" a lot of application complexity by abstracting it into things like Helm Charts or Operators. It's fun and easy to use operators to deploy databases, monitoring, mesh, minio... This does not make complexity disappear, it just abstracts it by creating another layer with an interface (k8s API) you may be more familiar with. Whole Kubernetes in practice is adding more and more layers on top of it. All those layers/tools are usually amazing but soon you need some real k8s skills AND some app skills to handle even unavoidable scenarios like ... upgrades. That's why it's so confusing sometimes and has such diverse opinions on. There aren't many environments that run vanilla cluster...