Containers aren’t the final destination, but they’ve enabled polyglot orchestration i.e., an app developer can target Kubernetes without needing to manage the minutia of operating a bunch of Linux hosts. It seems like almost every company that isn’t using containers for SaaS software development ends up badly reinventing Kubernetes and sinking a ton of time and money into maintaining it, and as a “human person”, I’m glad that I can focus my efforts on higher-level problems. When a technology inevitably matures to replace containers, I’ll look into it, but for now containers are the best way to build and manage heterogeneous distributed systems.