> It feels like many developers these days are so spoiled by magic services that they are unwilling to even spend a few days going deep into something.

Quite the opposite. K8s are a big opaque ball of magical complexity to most of us devs for sure (as is heroku). However, for 100% of my use cases nothing should be more complex than the database.

I’m not opposed to learning about it, but reducing complexity wherever reasonable has paid off for me.