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It does have real tradeoffs/flaws/limitations, chief among them, Run isn't allowed to "become" Kubernetes, you're expected to "graduate". There's been an immense marketing push for Kubernetes and Platform Engineering and all the associated SAAS sending the same message (also, notice how much less praise you hear about it now that the marketing has died down?).

The incentives are just really messed up all around. Think about all the actual people working in devops who have their careers/job tied to Kubernetes, and how many developers get drawn in by the allure and marketing because it lets them work on more fun problems than their actual job, and all the provisioned instances and vendor software and certs and conferences, and all the money that represents.