K8s requires either a (small) ops team to run it or using a hosted cloud solution. It's powerful and pays off when you have this, but if you can't afford to pay

K8s requires either a (small) ops team to run it or using a hosted cloud solution. It's powerful and pays off when you have this, but if you can't afford to pay for the cloud hosting or hiring a team to do it, you're not going to get the benefits, you're not the target market. Many products have a minimum size at which they are effective, no one is buying an Oxide rack for their homelab or side project, no startup going through YC is buying an IBM mainframe, because they are both obviously nowhere near the minimum effective size/complexity/spend. K8s is the same, and yet it seems to trip up so many people.