I'm more than willing to run K8S on my personal machine in the form of microk8s, k3s, minikube, and similar cut-down versions of k8s.
microk8s might not give as much gains.
k3s from Rancher actually cuts out a lot of code, and from I hear, can run fine on Rapsberry Pis.
I have not heard of "kind", but neat.
KIND - Kubernetes In Docker