No. Kubernetes is extremely valuable to small orgs. Google Kubernetes Engine is pretty much fire & forget. You turn it on, set the maintenance window and it just works. It also saves you from having to reinvent health checks, ingresses, etc. It's actually less work than maintaining plain old servers when you factor in maintenance, and since state is immutable you don't run into issues where some developer fixed an issue 3 years ago and no one knows why it works.
Having the possibility to test stuff locally using e.g. minikube. Also in general we just build everything around docker containers. Doesn't matter if they run locally on a dev machine or in a gke cluster.
