You clearly didn't read or hear Kelsey's full take because he agrees with you. People here are taking a clip/tweet out of context

I suggest listening to his Space in full

Whats the difference between running a large DB running at 90% on a VM compared to k8s?

The method of snapshotting uses a different plugin, but apart form that, its essentially the same.

It is written by a L9 at Google though

But likely not a L9 SWE, is he?

Then the Emperor's new clothes must be the finest in the land, no?