Yes it is worse, much worse. A large part of the reason for that is that it's written in Go. The other part is that it's written by Googlers and sysadmin people

Yes it is worse, much worse. A large part of the reason for that is that it's written in Go. The other part is that it's written by Googlers and sysadmin people; two groups not particularly known for their great software engineering skills. My personal experience here is mostly with cAdvisor (which I guess is not strictly part of Kubernetes but comes from the same ecosystem). It is chock full of horrible error handling (if there is any), uninitialized structures and a dozen layers of indirection.