[nullspace]

That's an interesting second-order effect right? Before Kubernetes et al, it was so much work or so complex that few companies implemented those things. Kubernetes saves so much work, that now everyone is doing it and it feels like more work.

"Things" here mean different things for different people. For me, it's secrets/certs, better rolling deploys and infra as code.

[stonemetal12]

Yeah, it is a premature optimization issue. Everyone is starting to implement scaling solutions before they have scaling problems.