> First one was uniformity. Every service deploys the same way.

My current company makes this claim, but it's not true. They also have serverless apps, and also have some services running directly on EC2.

They just think of the Kubernetes deployments as the "standard" way.

> Second was shared, hireable knowledge. K8s is basically a lingua franca now.

People were demanding experience with Kubernetes, long before it was reasonable to expect it. Everyone added it to their resume, because they had to.