This entire kerfluffle is a microcosm of so many things wrong with the industry. First, so many people have decided to use k8 for wrong reasons that is mind boggling. Those are mainly customers. Customers are often led into decisions by their own developers who are more interested in learning new things or in making themselves attractive for the next job. Yes sales people from the providers also help make this happen but more often than not the customer walks themselves into walls.
The providers hawk shit like it's magic and overstate their capabilities ad nauseum. Everything is sold like fucking magic. AI has been so fucking overhyped that it is mind numbingly hard to even deal with peers who should know better. Because it involves a whole new class of jackasses who specialize in statistics it is being mass introduced into an ecosystem where programmers with years of experience feel out of their depth and are acting like rubes when they're fed pure crap.
Then there is "I want free or cheap" guy. No sympathy. Go to DO or whatever you think is the magical unicorn out. Or, dig in and put up your own damn control plane. Actually learn what the spaghetti hell of k8 is (all things that try to solve hard distributed problems are some level of spaghetti). 90% of free and cheap guy want to work on the next dick pic app so fuck em.
But most annoying is the degree of almost political like knee jerk behavior by a community filled with people who routinely sneer at the religious or emotional. Same fucking community that fights over shit like this, fight over which language is "better" based on nonsensical criteria and hasn't figured out that the less moving parts the better in a distributed system. Wonder how many tanked elections or other horseshit people in this industry have to pull before folks are like "Hey, all those arrogant fucksteins who want free food and 10 times everyone's salary need to start being accountable for the crap they do."