You just wrote _exactly_ what I and others implored the new VP (for who knows what friends-hiring-friends reason) to make reality in the little company I just escaped. The idea of platform engineering NOT requiring other highly technical experts to stop their productive jobs to track weekly vicissitudes in helm/k8s configurations and blog posts was foreign to them. The company is in a downward spiral, but can't grasp why decimating productivity throughout engineering might be related. cartoons about dumpster fires come to mind (not joking) when I think of engineering there.