You should have seen the architecture they came up with... it had ALL the bells and whistles you could possibly imagine and cost an absolute fortune.

Of course they eventually got bored and quit. And then it became really annoying since no one else understood anything about it.

It takes approximately 3 months to get it "just right". Luckily, k8s releases (and CNI and auth sidecars, and...) release every 2.8 months.