[jknoepfler]

As someone who operates four medium-sized (20-200 nodes) clusters as a very small part of my job on a two-person team, I agree. I spend most of my days writing new operators to automate infrastructure, not manually managing kube... said team also own several large kafka brokers handling several billion messages a day, the full ci/cd pipeline, logging/metrics/tracing stack, a sharded postgres operator, authn/z, terraform automation, etc., etc.

We need more people, but kube is the least of our headaches.