One of my main criteria for evaluating a platform would be how easy it is to make user errors.

To be honest the API versions have been a lot more stable recently but back in ~2019 when I first used Kube in production, basic APIs were getting deprecated left and right, 4 times a year; in the end yes the problems are "on you" but it so easy to miss and the results so disastrous for a platform whose selling points are toughness resilience and self-healing