They work for google, however there just arent many companies with the resources of google.

If you had a small army of SRE and seriously senior devs / devops you could easily manage containers.

If you are just stuck on running containers and k8s I suggest you leverage their resources and get to GKE

But then releasing k8s might just have been the plan to get people into GKE instead of AWS

Who am I to speculate on googles marketing acumen ?