For many it could just be a convenience, assuming the distro way just works. With conflicting goals and approaches, you might end up worse off though. Ideally, you mostly want to spend time and effort on higher pursuits than managing or building your own platform.
> Ideally, you mostly want to spend time and effort on higher pursuits than managing or building your own platform.
I've run openstack for a while and... realistically if you run a platform, you need to have people/time to manage it. I understand from conversations about k8s that is not that much different.
