k8s doesn't require redoing foundations every month

this LTS hysteria is completely made-up

it benefits from updates every year, also who uses naked k8s (the hard way?), folks use a distribution with an updater

lol. have you ever done an update with breaking api changes and cluster global exposures/rbac for helm charts? It's like switching out the bolts in a running engine.

test clusters to the rescue!

of course it's more work than simply applying the new charts, but the nice thing about k8s is that you can dump out the stuff from the working one, use k3s/kind/minikube, try the upgrade, and you are as good to go as with a dist-upgrade or similar.