>Anyone know why this is? Or, for that matter, why Kubernetes seems to work like this too?

Pods are specifically not wanted to be treated as vms, but as a single application/deployment units.

Among other things, if a container goes down you don’t know if it corrupted shared state (leaving sockets open or whatever). So you don’t know if the pod is healthy after restart. Also reviving it might not necessarily work, if the original startup process relied on some boot order. So to guarantee a return to healthy you need to restart the whole thing.