Hey, friend. No need to get mad. I've worked on these exact systems I'm describing for years, which is how I know these things. They suck. It's not about k8s itself, you're focused on the wrong part of what I'm saying.

You want to just stream files to people cheaply and quickly, these companies don't do that anymore, and that's the choice these companies have made. They'd rather scale their engineering resources to the microservices that nickle and dime the shit out of everyone. That's just the facts.