As a developer I appreciate the compartmentalization, being able to make truly isolated changes. This is something that's not trivial for lots of folks, me included. I guess if one has the expertise in house to manage a K8s cluster on a raw machine, that'd be an option but I, personally, am not gonna touch that with a ten foot pole. So yeah with a big and capable enough infrastructure team that complexity could be abstracted away but in reality I (where I've worked) haven't seen that yet.