Weird how defensive people get about K8S when you say stuff like this. It’s like they’re desperately trying to convince you that you really do need all that complexity.
I believe there's still a lot of potential for building niche / "human-scale" services/businesses, that don't inherently require the scalability of the cloud or complexity of k8s. Scaling vertically is always easier, modern server hardware has insane perf ceiling. The overall reduction in complexity is a breath of fresh air.
My occasional moral dilemma is idle power usage of overprovisioned resources, but we've found some interesting things to throw at idle hardware to ease our conscience about it.
1. Shovel salesman insisting all "real" gold miners use their shovels
2. Those that have already acquired shovels not wanting their purchase to be mocked/have been made in vain.
Neither are grounded in reality. Why people believe their tiny applications require the same tech that Google invented to help manage their (massive) scale is beyond me.
