Would you say that you would be happier if you put a bunch of websites/web applications behind a load balancer like haproxy - all in a few VMs or even bare-metal servers instead of taking on the complexity of Kubernetes?

No snark or pushing opinion; I’m genuinely wondering how it is from someone who went through this path.

As a sysadmin who cares more about the reliability of services, still managing critical services outside of Kubernetes, I’m wondering what I’m missing out with Kubernetes.