Helm just has too much auto-magic and remove's one of k8s best features, the git-blame / git-diff for Infrastructure.
helm diff upgrade <release> <repo> --namespace <namespace>If your team is big enough you can just write your own configs, but that takes a lot of time and often quite a bit of knowledge about the relevant service.
Rollbacks and resource cleanup is not to be underestimated either if you are not getting that from other tools like Argo.
Note: You can still use the Git-centric approach by generating configuration via `helm template`.
I've been using kustomize to deploy some things with ArgoCD and it's so much easier. Now, I'm trying to never use helm for 3rd party.
However, for your internal things, Helm is hard to replace. It's easy to start a chart that is capable of deploying most of your internal services, but maintaining it is a nightmare.
Actually, using helm, as in `helm` the binary, directly sounds bonkers to me and I wouldn't wish this upon anyone.
Absolutely would not write helm charts from scratch for normal deployments, and if I got these apps in a better format than helm, I’d probably drop it immediately.