> and I think the agentic industry is moving away from k8s as a deployment platform

Uhhhhhhhhhhh I think you and I live in very different versions of the world :-)

Vmware sent companies moving to nutanix, but it also sent a lot of companies moving to openshift or bare k8s and using kubevirt to handle VMs.

In fact, I haven't heard of an org moving to any other platform, really. Either openshift or k8s.