> a plain helm install without any values rarely if ever gives you the deployment you need

works for me most of the time

> This is hardly unique to helm.

So what? The guy was asking what is nice about Helm vs Kustomize. Does Kustomize have rollbacks?

> In 2025 you should probably be using gitops

Gitops is literally just "hey I have some configs in Git and I run some command based on a checkout", i.e. infrastructure as code in a git repo. Gitops does not track live server metadata and deployment history. I don't get why people over-inflate this idea.