Reminds of X509 ‘full monte’ security, another overblown monster. Kubernetes orchestrates thousands of containers, but maintaining the orchestrator itself costs more: The sought ‘microservice-everything’ counterproductively sucks time and cost via management versus writing business logic — not an engineered solution but instead an awful and expensive liability. The smartest CTOs in 2026 aren’t those hyping huge Kubernetes clusters; rather, they are escaping. Are you stuck in K8S morass?