Spend some time learning it, using it to deploy simple apps, and you won't go back to deploying in a VM again imo.

This only gets better with ai-assisted development, any model is going to produce much better results for k8s given the huge training set vs someone's bespoke build rube-goldberg machine.

when in reality, you can go very bare-bones with k8s, but people pretend like only the most extreme complexity is what's possible because it's not easy to admit that k8s is actually quite practical in a lot of ways, especially for avoiding drift and automation

that's my take on it

This feels like what us Brits would call "damning with faint praise".

Windows 95 was terrible. Really bad. If you really mean to say that Kubernetes is revolutionary and well-engineered, Windows 2000 would be a much better example.

knowing when and when not to use k8s, is also a skill