For small teams I also think Kubernetes often greatly complicates the per-service operational overhead by making it much more difficult for most engineers to ma

For small teams I also think Kubernetes often greatly complicates the per-service operational overhead by making it much more difficult for most engineers to manage their own deployments. You will inevitably reach a point that engineers need to collaborate with infra folks, but in my experience that point gets moved up a lot by using Kubernetes.