I see this sentiment a lot online, but k8s for us has been quite simple to learn and use and, like you acknowledged here, solved a lot of availability issues out of the box for us that we previously had to deal with in more manual ways. Better yet, it’s a standardized platform that we can use company-wide and that every engineer understands, including potential hires — that’s very valuable. I feel it has become a common trope to claim k8s is complicated and overkill but we are quite glad we made the move to using it.