Has anyone found a non-chaotic way to do CI/CD with Kubernetes?

Every Kubernetes setup I’ve touched ends up like this: GitHub Actions, custom Docker registry, Helm, ArgoCD, a dashboard, and some bash scripts. It works… until it doesn’t. I’d love to hear if anyone has found a more cohesive way to do CI/CD for Kubernetes, or at least a setup that’s less painful to maintain long-term.