i think you missed the "on day 1" part of my comment. k8s, iac, and observability are incrdible tools when you actually have the scale and team to justifiy them.

my point is strictly about premature optimizaton. ive seen teams spend their first month writing helm charts and terraform before they even have a single paying user. if you have product-market fit and need zero-downtime rollbacks, absolutly use k8s. but if youre just validatng an mvp, a vps and docker-compose (or sqlite) is usually enough to get off the ground.

its all about trade-offs tbh.