I hear what you're saying, but horizontal scaling also gives you improved reliability too, which is good for individual instances.
I for one would happily horizontally scale an instance I was running (which I am not for now) on my K8s lab. Why? Because I can and because I like it!
Not really no.
The process of "embrace, extend and extinguish" has been used multiple times to destroy FLOSS projects from the inside.
Of the top of my head:
I've just got back from a run so my brain is not fully connected, so others can give other examples.
Meta do not want to join the party for fun. They want to join because it is the only way they can smother it.
One thing the Sysadmin community no longer needs to know about:
My job is horrible, I commute 6 hours each way to my office in the cellar. My boss is useless a wet blanket who's only working muscle is his tongue which he uses to kiss the backside of the attention-seeking, sociopath CEO who won't spend any money because our Windows NT4 infra is "as good as it gets". Being a Sysadmin sucks! What should I do?
If the most common phrase here is "brush up your CV" we have a problem.
Kubernetes the hard way is a great resource.
If you have access to some hardware, install K3s and get a LAMP stack running.
If it can run on PHP8 you get JIT compilation, which should go a long way to closing any gaps (if they exist, which I suspect not).
Fedora on desktop, Rocky on servers except my K8s cluster which is on Fedora Coreos
Calibre is powerful and mature
Or the Prodigy, who relied almost entirely on samples yet made some of the most exciting music we had ever heard.
There was song from the 60s (supposedly the best music everyone tells me) called "7 little girls". The chorus went "7 little girls sitting the back seat kissing and hugging with Fred"
Thankfully a mostly forgotten song now, but a clear example of how bloody awful pop music is not a new phenomenon.
I'll take your Sensible Soccer and raise you Kick-off 2 (on the Amiga of course).
As over-hyped tech goes VR is bad, but 3D cinema is not far behind.
Oleg Tinkof for tsar!
On second thoughts, amusing as that would be, perhaps not the best idea.