Teams adopt Kubernetes at ten users and regret it at ten thousand. Complexity has a maintenance cost paid every day by the people who did not choose it.
Pick the smallest platform that meets your reliability targets, write the targets down, and only add machinery when a target is genuinely at risk.
Reproducibility matters more than sophistication. If you can rebuild the entire environment from code in an hour, you are ahead of most organisations regardless of what you run it on.
