> I see the appeal of K8s in dividing raw, stateful hardware to run multiple parallel workloads, but if you're dealing with stateless cloud VMs, why would you need K8S and its overhead when the VM hypervisor already gives you all that functionality?

I think you're not familiar with Kubernetes and what features it provides.

For example, kubernetes supports blue-green deployments and rollbacks, software-defined networks, DNS, node-specific purges and taints, etc. Those are not hypervisor features.

Also, VMs are the primitives of some cloud providers.

It sounds like you heard about how Borg/Kubernetes was used to simplify the task of putting together clusters with COTS hardware and you didn't bothered to learn more about Kubernetes.