If you missed the news yesterday, https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/ - Istio is moving to a "proxy per node" / "per namespace" model.

Chris has a video demo here (also featuring K9s) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nupRBh9Iypo

This is quite a revolution - similar to when the micro services got melted down into "istiod".