[watermelon0]

I'm not necessarily agreeing with you. Kubernetes really is a complex beast, and I wouldn't recommend self-hosting it for companies that don't have people that can focus solely on managing it.

I would also not recommend it for hosting a WordPress site, or a simple CRUD app.

However, when you get to the level where autoscaling is required, and where you are deploying multiple services, managed Kubernetes is not such a bad idea.

Using EKS (especially with Fargate) on AWS is not much harder than figuring out and properly utilizing EC2/ASG/ELB. GKE or DigitalOcean offerings seem to be even easier to use and understand.