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I feel the same, especially the feeling old and jaded part, but I disagree that things were easier. Systems such as Kubernetes are not worse than trying to administer a zillion servers and networks by hand in the late '90s (or with tools like Puppet and Ansible a bit later), let alone HA shenanigans; neither are they a magical solution, more of a side-step and necessary evolution of scale.

There is a wild-grow of 80% solved problems in the Kubernetes space though, and especially the DevOps landscape seems to be plagued by half-solutions at the moment.

I think part of the complexity arises from everything being interconnected services instead of simple stand-alone software binaries. Things talking with other things, not necessarily from the same maker or ecosystem.

I don't understand decisions such as these though, retiring de facto standards such as Ingress NGINX. I can't name a single of our customers at $WORKPLACE that's running something else.