Ask HN: Is Kubernetes too complex for most use cases?

I understand why people choose K8S as a platform but is the trade off worth it considering how much complexity it introduces? There so many moving parts that could cause things to go wrong and be very difficult to troubleshoot.

At this stage I am still leaning towards plain old VMs in the cloud + something like Consul for service discovery. Maybe I am being overly cautious or missing a fundamental piece of the picture?