I still haven’t upgraded to the new iOS and seeing these reports, I’m not sure whether I should.

When people say that Kubernetes is complicated, this is the stuff they mean. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to play this complexity game reliably, so the only reasonable way through would be not to play.

If your reliability depends on heroic efforts or arcane knowledge from individuals, then you have no reliability. This week’s AWS outage shows that clearly. Whatever conclusions you draw from that is up to you.