The challenge with these editorials is that you can never really capture the opportunity cost from the author - they didn't build the monolith without the complex infrastructure as an alternative in parallel.

I wonder how much 'sunk cost' and other psychological factors play into the statement: > We started with Kubernetes a bit too early,

It feels like a "it wasn't that bad". But if you consider the dedicated resources, costs of pain and suffering that may have been avoided with a simpler architecture and infrastructure, I'm forced to wonder if this short comment hides a lot under the covers.

Engineers can have very high pain thresholds sometimes.