Fair point but I think the key point here is unnecessary complexity versus necessary complexity. Are zero-downtime deployments and load balancing unnecessary? P

Fair point but I think the key point here is unnecessary complexity versus necessary complexity. Are zero-downtime deployments and load balancing unnecessary? Perhaps for a personal project, but for any company with a consistent userbase I'd argue these are a non-negotiable, or should be anyways. In a situation where this is the expectation, k8s seems like the simplest answer, or near enough to it.