The complexity meme doesn't really make much sense.
k8s is a the centre of a lot of transformational stories, where companies that couldn't do things like CI/CD have been helped making the leap, because it pretty much forces you to do IaC and makes it hard to screw up.
It's harder than clicking on the GUI, starting a VM, ssh'ing to a box and running a process, but is it harder than doing the same with terraform on AWS?
k8s is a the centre of a lot of transformational stories, where companies that couldn't do things like CI/CD have been helped making the leap, because it pretty much forces you to do IaC and makes it hard to screw up.
It's harder than clicking on the GUI, starting a VM, ssh'ing to a box and running a process, but is it harder than doing the same with terraform on AWS?