I run microk8s at home not because it’s easier, but because I want to retain the skills/knowledge if I ever have to work somewhere where k8s is used again. Given how ubiquitous it has become there’s a decent likelihood of that being the case if I go looking for work as a backend software engineer. It also has a couple of benefits in that if I ever decide to move my stuff to a cloud provider like DigitalOcean it’s probably going to be dead simple compared to setting up and reconfiguring something running in a VM.