This just reads as a systems engineer who is angry about new tooling/processes replacing parts of their job.
but it doesn't its needs a bunch of work to upgrade/migrate replace. which is what they are complaining about. having to replace perfectly good stuff, with _new_ stuff.
Unless you are bringing teams together onto one platform, k8s is never going to save you cash/engineer hours.
It's a lamentation of the introduction of complexity into a formerly-simple set of APIs.
The question is, should one feel any one way about that. I’d imagine it would be the most annoying thing on earth, so it’s a valid emotion being expressed.
Maybe? There weren't any actual reasons for why the author so vehemently disliked all of the technologies mentioned, and there was certainly no acknowledgement of the potential benefits of them.
To me, that being the 'actual reasons' was implicit from the rant - I don't disagree that it was a rant rather than an argument.
They are arguing that "House Builders Inc" has invented an automated robotic nail gun and is encouraging standards industries to recommend the only things built with such a system are compliant.