I don't think that is true. Kubernetes brings a lot of advantages to people who have to manage infrastructure (like me). It gives me a single interface that I can apply across multiple teams. They all only need to provide me with a docker image and that's mostly it.

Also what is the alternative? Self-written unmaintainable bash-scripts? That's what they had before. Every team had their own way of deployment, creating packages,.... It was quite the nightmare.

To be fair, we use EKS, so a lot of the annoying work is done by AWS.