Kubernetes is like if someone snorted a bunch of HTTP RFCs and then decided to half-ass an operating system in an all-night bender. And then a (distributed!) propaganda machine convinced ever middle manager ever to use it.
There are two ways to look at it. It's all been purely built up via propaganda, or there is actual merit in the tool. Ironically, it's a meta-game because propaganda supports each of those views.
But personally, I think it's silly to say Kubernetes has more of a propaganda issue than any other <insert big name framework>. There are "purists" like any other tool. However, I don't let them bother me so much that I just throw the baby out with the bathwater.