The level of Waypoint abstraction is the same as Terraform. You are not expected to use Waypoint and not understand the underlying platform. This is similar to Terraform: you still have to know something like AWS well to use Terraform.

With Waypoint, we aren't doing any magic, you specifically opt into a Kubernetes plugin for example. If something goes wrong, you'll have to understand Kubernetes. Waypoint isn't trying to replace that, we're just trying to provide a common workflow on top of these platforms (same as Terraform with infra).