I feel like k8s sits in the same space as git. One of those tools that is ridiculously complex, obtuse, un-userfriendly but at the same time worth sucking it all up because the win from consolidating your knowledge into something that is an industry standard is far greater than whatever particular things one doesn't like about how it works.

It is a fascinating dynamic however that generates these outcomes where a large numbers of people collectively settle on something that the majority of them seem to hate.