[thenewwazoo]

> I'm constantly reinventing solutions to problems that Kubernetes already solves—just less efficiently.

But you've already said yourself that the cost of using K8s is too high. In one sense, you're solving those solutions more efficiently, it just depends on the axis you use to measure things.

[randallsquared]

The original statement is ambiguous. I read it as "problems that k8s already solves -- but k8s is less efficient, so can't be used".

[AdrianB1]

That picture with the almost-empty truck seems to be the situation that he describes. He wants the 18 wheeler truck, but it is too expensive for just a suitcase.