Actually i have experience working un hi loaded env operated by k8s.

But for 99% of projects i see, it’s a waste of time and resources (mostly people resources, not just cpu). HN is a perfect example of a project that doesn’t need it, no matter the traffic.

If you need some additional flexibility and scalability over “bare metal” setup, you can go far with just docker compose or swarm until you have no choice but use k8s

Again, if you know what you are doing.