kubernetes is dying, isn't it?
However, I wonder what you mean? Kubernetes from where I sit has almost complete ubiquity across most companies. Even in places where it's a poor fit.
Whether that means Kubernetes is dying, I'm not so sure. But Kubernetes is extremely complex for a lot of workloads that it's total overkill for, so I'm not surprised people are looking for options.
The only issue I have with the default HorizontalPodAutoscaler is that I cannot scale down to 0 when some processing queues are empty. Other than that, we have shrines erected to k8s.