IMO it's a poor tool for local dev. It's just too much of a pain to work inside of a vm—or at least what's essentially a vm. The real value is for production deployments since the way you setup dependencies is consistent across different app types.

In theory it is also better because you can manage a fleet of containers just by looking at their memory and CPU usage and not really caring about what's inside, but I think the reality is that k8s is so complex it's not clear the tradeoff of finer-grained management is worth the difficulty of setting it up. Maybe, depends on your use-case.

People are saying the issue is that you're running it on Windows but I would counter that running on macOS can be just as bad if you're trying to run x86 containers on an ARM box.