If you use GKE, you have been spoiled. Other Kubernetes platforms - in particular EKS, which is what most people are going to use since most people use AWS - are way more work to setup and maintain. (Emphasis on the "maintain".)
Also, I think a lot of companies have really terrible devops practices that don't work in Kubernetes. So their move to Kubernetes includes a lot of extra work that isn't really caused by the move to Kubernetes.
Also, I think a lot of companies have really terrible devops practices that don't work in Kubernetes. So their move to Kubernetes includes a lot of extra work that isn't really caused by the move to Kubernetes.