I have found that people who are adamant haters of k8s, usually truly do not understand k8s or the issues it solves.

It's not for everyone - but having a knee-jerk allergic reaction to anything k8s is silly.

That said - k8s isn't just about scaling, or for "web scale" companies. If you are a person that believes that, it means you are the type of person I am talking about.

I don’t hate k8s, I hate that everyone blindly adopts it without understanding the complexity it adds. I understand it well enough to know YAGNI for most applications. Get over yourself, just because you disagree with me doesn’t mean I’m stupid.

It seems you don't really understand it at all. That's the problem.