Containerization has done wonderful things for our industry.

Abstraction has done horrible things to our industry.

We're so many layers up now that hardly anyone (except a blessed few) can really understand the whole thing, so the average engineer is left thrashing against the mountain of abstraction created for the sake of some nebulous "standardization" or even just for abstractions sake.

I argue that public cloud systems are harder to "get right" and present a larger security risk than many appreciate and Kubernetes is, while very cool, a massive chunk of complexity that makes it harder to actually understand what is going on; to not even mention the opaque, intentionally confusing and under-documented complexities that come with operating in public clouds in the first place.

It's not always possible to make a simpler system, but it's always possible to make a more complex one. I think modern day systems are firmly in the "more complicated than they need to be" territory. To be completely honest, I don't really see that changing.