Balanced takes like this are the only reason I still come back to HN. A shot at K3S in my homelab is in my backlog but young kids have set me back. If you have any material that touches on what you said above I'd appreciate a link. So much crap out there which is just Hello World blogspam.

KodeKloud is worth a subscription. I'm an older learner too and their courseware works well for me.