I think the important detail here is that he mentions he doesn't use it because of operators. That may mean they tried it in previous major version which used t

I think the important detail here is that he mentions he doesn't use it because of operators. That may mean they tried it in previous major version which used teller. That was quite a long time ago. That being said, helm templates are disgusting and I absolutely hate how easily developers complicate their charts. Even the default empty chart has helpers. Why, on Earth, why? I almost fully relate to OPs aproach to k8s but I think with their simplified approach helm (the current one) could work quite well.