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From what I understand, the labour/complexity in K8S lies not with the deployment, but with managing said deployment over the long term.

This is a real problem for system architects/security professionals that need to maintain a bird's eye view of the system - a job that gets increasingly complex with every additional microservice once you hit critical mass.

This is not to say that K8S does not work - they do, but for certain problems. The cargo-cult mentality, however, threatens to introduce complexity in systems where there is need for none.

Not exactly. But k8s enables a lot of complexity that is usually underestimated.

Kubernetes itself is not the problem. It's the DIY PaaS setups people build with YAML files, bash scripts, Jenkins jobs and webhooks that people build on top of it.