If you're using ArgoCD or something then sure, but bear in mind the original statement you made was directed at someone who is new to K8s, and given a command that can be executed from their shell, they would likely assume that's what you meant.
It doesn’t have to be Argo, it can be Jenkins. Whether or not you use a CD pipeline is orthogonal to whether or not you use k8s. The best practice is to use a pipeline whether you’re targeting k8s or bare VMs or a higher level PaaS abstraction.
