[PickledJesus]

I don't understand this at all, a Kustomize base is far easier to read than a Helm Chart? It's a set of manifests with no templating. I find that it's easy to see what gets patched or replaced in the overlays and there's a lot more fail-fast rather than stringly-typed whitespace nonsense.

[withinboredom]

I guess your kustomizeations are relatively simple. Just wait until you have 4-5 layers of it, flipping between several files to figure out which file needs to change how, just to change an attribute. With a chart, I just make the change and can work it out, all in the same file.