Honestly. Give yourself a month to learn it and migrate your home lab and it's actually not too difficult. Yes it takes a lot of debugging initially, but like most things, once you're familiar, it becomes easy.
And that’s an undeniable feature of Kubernetes: people know about it, and smart people use the same (CNCF) building blocks, to keep maximising the probability that your next Kubernetes engineer has also knows about it.
But do you want to turn your software system distributed at the cost of immense complexity?
Only if you’re already cultivating something immensely complex, and you’d be better off with a common language.