Regardless of whether Service Mesh is overly complex, the industry seems to have entered an era of "Complexity Worship". I was speaking to some engineers at a small startup the other day with only a handful of customers. They have invested significant resource building there own K8S cluster, ensuring it runs on multi-cloud etc, sounds a lot like premature optimisation.
I have a theory that Complexity Worship is a product of boredom by CS degrees who would rather not spend their time implementing WYSIWYG editors or whatever anymore.
That's insane. I feel like at a small scale you get a product out the door and refine it until you start growing. It's really not hard to use ansible to deploy your stuff onto EC2 and add more nodes as you grow.
But, K8s is the new hotness and people are going to use it.
