It's not like you can let someone run bare VMs without any production experience either. You need a PaaS for something like that, even then...
> Everyone used something like minicube to bring a kubernetes cluster online and believes it is simple.
This hasn't been my experience, and certainly the Kubernetes project doesn't advertise the software as "so simple anyone can do it" or any such thing. Kubernetes definitely requires experience--it's not a PaaS, but a framework on which something like a PaaS could be built.
> Everyone used something like minicube to bring a kubernetes cluster online and believes it is simple.
This hasn't been my experience, and certainly the Kubernetes project doesn't advertise the software as "so simple anyone can do it" or any such thing. Kubernetes definitely requires experience--it's not a PaaS, but a framework on which something like a PaaS could be built.