> I might just be stupid, but it feels like all I ever do with ____ is update and break ____ files, and then spend a day fixing them by copy-pasting increasingly-convoluted things on stackexchange. I cannot imagine how anyone goes to work and actually enjoys working in ____, though I guess someone must in terms of “law of large numbers”.

I'd make a similar statement about the sys admin stuff you already know well. Give me yaml and a rest api any day.

I see where you and the article are coming from, though. The article reasonably points out that k8s is heavy for simpler workloads.