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I think the article is congruent with your thinking — k8s shapes those OTHER decisions in critical and may in some cases be the reasons why those decisions exist in the first place.

To me, the insight of the article was questioning whether a team of your size should be needing to make those decisions? It may very well be that your case requires k8s. But, I can think of many small shops that would benefit from keeping things simple and paying someone (a cloud provider) in the beginning of their journey and slowly adding complexity as success comes along.