[remram]

I'm not saying they shouldn't customize their PodSpec, I'm saying if they do, your controller is exactly the same as the built-in Deployment controller, running user-provided pods. Why build a copy of it?

[ojhughes]

Because it’s an aggregate of a number of different resources types and custom logic not exactly the same as deployment.

I can see you don’t like operators and that’s fine. Many folks find it’s a useful pattern to follow