After watching the deployment team trying to keep up with Docker and their ridiculous pace of breaking changes, and then eventual decision to move entirely away from Docker for containers; I really understand their decision not to want to touch k8s with a 10 ft pole.

If the choice is between "building features based around business needs so other teams can make more awesome stuff" and "throwing lots of dev time at just chasing docker/k8s/whatever", why on earth would they want to choose the latter?