So they're holding it wrong?

> a lot of what you listed is not strictly necessary to running managed kubernetes, specifically EKS

Oh it's not necessary per se but if you want to host a web service with any sort of state and not having to do stuff in parallel either by hand or by terraform, I'd consider the integrations pretty vital.

It's easy enough (well, it's still addons whose versions you have to keep updated each on their own) once it is set up, but getting to the point where you have something reproducibly running for the first time is annoying as hell.