[Thaxll]

It's not slightly better it's way better than Ansible/Puppet/Bash/immutable deployments, because everything follow the same paterm and is standard.

You get observability pretty much for free, solution from 15 years ago were crap, remember Nagios and the like?

Old solutions would put trash all over the disk in /etc/. How many time did we have to ssh to fix / repair stuff?

All the health check / load balancer is also much better handled on Kubernetes.