don't believe you will get down-voted for this point of view.

running and most-important keeping a k8s cluster up-to-date is a major time investment. I think the important time is balancing the benefits you get from k8s with the time draining aspect of having to run the cluster.

also, as counter-argument to what you are saying: if I'm going to move to the Cloud, why leverage k8s at all? Most clouds have other abstractions that you can use when building if you don't mind being locked into a specific bigCo.