I’ve been using Kubernetes in production for over 4 years. I think I fully understand what’s going on, it’s just I have a different opinion than those downvoting me.

There's a few dozen ways to work with k8s that don't involve helm. I understand that hasn't been your experience but to deny they exist shows a lack of.

I’m not denying they exist, I’m arguing they are either inferior or do not fully substitute functionality.

It's true they do less, but that's mostly a good thing. I never use helm, just scripts and kustomize.

The one thing it misses is a way to easily delete resources.