I don't see a link to dig into the Open Application Model, and I don't have time to search for one tonight. Maybe kubernetes can benefit from a higher level of abstraction than helm charts provides, but I would need to see some use cases. I did get a kick out of:

>> He also argues that Kubernetes itself is too complicated for enterprise developers. “At this point, it’s really infrastructure-focused,” he said. “You want a developer to focus on the app. What we saw when we talked to Kubernetes shops, they don’t let developers near Kubernetes.”

Not sure what he means by "get near" but it's really not that complicated to use kubectl to interrogate and modify the cluster. All of the back end engineers on our small team are comfortable with it.