Is Kubernetes Really Necessary for Data Science?

It seems almost preordained at this point: Thou Shalt Run Thy Data Science Environment On a Cloud-Native Kubernetes Platform. This is 2020, after all. How else could it possibly run? But Tyler Whitehouse, a data scientist who worked at DARPA and IARPA, and his associates from Johns Hopkins University have a very different view on how to manage and distribute resources for data scientists. It does feature containers, but it doesn't involve Kubernetes. To hear Whitehouse tell it, the whole data science community has zigged, without ever considering whether they should have zagged.