No need to go back 30 years.

If doing professional work, use heroku, App Engine or any similar PaaS solution.

If doing hobby/side projects, Dokku is a great self hosted heroku alternative. Easy to setup and use.

Kubernetes is a very low level tool. If you want to run it yourself you need s full team of infra experts to not fuck it up. So I think it could be a great tool for large companies with many teams and a lot of money.

As usual the problem is not taking into account context, and single developers or startups thinking they need to do what google does so they go full Go microservices spa Kubernetes crazy. Add some of the Agile bullshit on top of this and welcome to your average startup nowadays.