Weird how defensive people get about K8S when you say stuff like this. It’s like they’re desperately trying to convince you that you really do need all that complexity.
My occasional moral dilemma is idle power usage of overprovisioned resources, but we've found some interesting things to throw at idle hardware to ease our conscience about it.
1. Shovel salesman insisting all "real" gold miners use their shovels
2. Those that have already acquired shovels not wanting their purchase to be mocked/have been made in vain.
Neither are grounded in reality. Why people believe their tiny applications require the same tech that Google invented to help manage their (massive) scale is beyond me.