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The most important thing for me about Kubernetes is that it makes things fun again. (YMMV) The Kubernetes Slack is super friendly and helpful! (also YMMV ;) )
The article is factually accurate and the mental model is consistent with other K8s docs, but I'm not sure I've seen it put so concisely from an outside perspective before.
The ¹ footnote should have been in-line, because "front-loading" complexity is a great explanation: distributed systems are hard, and require a whole bunch of decisions. It's intimidating to be faced will all of those decisions up front, but at least they're all visible, and it forces you to be very clear on what you want, or you get nothing. I'd rather be surprised and confused (which is to say, have to think) now rather than in 6 months when I realize I had not accounted for some something.
Finally ... I would be lost without k9s: https://k9scli.io/
tilt is a local development tool for containerized apps that handles things like file watching, auto-rebuilds, etc. It can do k8s, multiple docker-compose setups, whatever. We've liked it so far: https://tilt.dev/
I'm fairly certain people like me are confused by Prolog not because it's declarative but because it's a logic programming language. Which is more exotic than a functional one with even more esoteric syntax.
I have a feeling XSLT would be better known (i.e. be able to justify investment into learning) if not for json/yaml popularity. Though XML is not particularly human readable anyway. The next logical step after https://json-schema.org/ would be JSLT I imagine.
On a related note, Maven is a great example of a declarative build system. Both Gradle and SBT were gigantic steps back.