Thing is, by the time the cloud native stuff makes sense most companies are at a scale where it'd be cheaper to just hire a good devops team, and start building your own cloud infra on own hardware.
Still, my most benevolent interpretation of current reality is, rather than saying "that cloud native stuff is crap", accepting that there are cases where it may make sense.
For instance, large companies might have trouble hiring a good ops team because they have in general trouble hiring and retaining talent (another conversation topic).
Ops people are a scarce good because univs do not train people for that and most people prefer coding. I am leaving the work devops out because the market completely perverted its meaning.
(my take on the devops funeral: https://logical.li/blog/devops/ )
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#developer-profile-deve...
Only around 11% of the whole devs identify as devops specialist or cloud infrastructure engineer.
This is why I am saying ops people are a scarce good (unfortunately) from a data driven perspective. Of course my daily life confirms it.
The connection of this to the replies above it: I am not sure if this kind of junior people would be easy to retain in a large corporate environment. We certainly can do that in niche consulting.