PaaSes are for companies with money to burn, most of the time. A good k8s team (even a single person, to be quite honest) is going to work towards providing you

PaaSes are for companies with money to burn, most of the time. A good k8s team (even a single person, to be quite honest) is going to work towards providing your application teams with simple templates to let them deploy their software easily. Just let them do it. Also, in my experience, you either have to spend ridiculous amounts of money on SaaS/PaaS, or you find that you have to host a lot more than just your application and suddenly the deployment story becomes more complex. Depending on where you are and how much you're willing to burn money, you might find out that k8s experts are cheaper than the money saved by not going PaaS.