> I say that because I've never seen a standard so easy and seamless for a developer to get his code running.

You deploy using extremely long YAML files, your app interacts with a lot of complex software (secret storage, ingress controller etc) and accessing your app for debugging is very non-straightforward. Once you understand the concepts and stack it's great, but when you're coming from locally running your app or even docker, it's as opaque as it gets.

In my experience, it's actually worse for developers, because infra people are forced to learn k8s as direct part of their job, while for developers it's more of a sidenote.