[tsimionescu]

> Also it really feels like all the air has been let out of the docker/kubernetes/cloud-native balloon that was so popular in the late 2010s.

As someone who works for a company that sells various k8s versions of products and services, we're only now seeing some of our bigger customers really starting to use k8s more exclusively. So at least my experience is the opposite of yours, it seems that at least in some industries k8s is only now seeing significant adoption.