My point exactly. I qualitatively explain that "a virtual private 'cloud'" is essentially the old datacenter, and all its components. When we say K8s, it is a "puff", and we get to own all the complexity we put on the cloud provider.
Probably there are some ninjas at the FANG companies who are savvy enough to keep their system fully saturated and maximize the cost/performance ratio of the resources.
My little riff-raff team needs to squeeze the most functionality out of the services at hand and work off technical debt ahead of gettin' all fancy with all this new-fangled stuff.
Way too much for most usecases out there. And if you don't understand it, you can't fix it when it breaks.