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Kubernetes isn't the platform. It's an extremely complex platform that enables better (meaning "more purpose built and friendlier to use") platforms to be built on top of it. Kubernetes is a big box of tools. You can either hire people that know how to use the tools for you, or use a solution where someone else picked out all the tools in the box you needed and made simpler and more opinionated interfaces for them.

Of course, in the latter case, you might end up in the predicament where the solution's creators had different opinions than you. And then you either live with the disagreement, or circle back to hiring people that know how to use the complex big box of tools.