Yea. Probably thats how we wound up there. We bought off risk, by spending money that it turned out didn't resolve the risk when it hit, but because we TRIED we got to shift blame, by not owning "you broke it you fix it" to the management view.
That is where Debian just isn't going to compete. And that is why SuSE exists, they're selling much more than linux.
But right now, I think we're all staring at alpine in kubernetes asking if the old giant unix model is the one we want.
I think "all" is a bit of an exaggeration though :). Besides, something is hosting all those Alpine containers, and while I'm pretty far removed from this field, I hear it's not Alpine most of the time.