I worked with tech companies and some banks in the early days of Kubernetes who were deep in Mesos and many of them felt the same way. It’s really hard to see this as it’s happening.

Kubernetes is absolutely “worse is better” when it comes to scheduling. But scheduling isn’t the problem most people needed solved. Kubernetes standardized deployment patterns of multiple apps well for most people. Everything else was a nice to have (scheduling, scale, ease of initial setup, etc).