You might not be a database person, but you’re spot on. A well managed HA postgresql (active/passive) is going to run circles around etcd for kube controlplane

You might not be a database person, but you’re spot on. A well managed HA postgresql (active/passive) is going to run circles around etcd for kube controlplane operations. The caveat here is increased risk of downtime, and a much higher management overhead, which is why its not the default.