You're not wrong about the ideal case, but I've never seen the ideal case in any real (read: paid) context. I've seen hobbyists with very solid setups that were well managed, I've made the thing that kubernetes wants to solve by hand and I understand it's not a trivial (that is to say, not a single afternoon of design and implementation) to do.

I guess I'm just really frustrated with seeing the people that get paid to use and promote it be so bad at what they do and I don't like cleaning up after them :)