Yep, this 100%. Every time there is a technology which has became the "de facto" standard, and there are people proposing "simpler alternatives", this is the kind of practical detail that makes a GIANT difference and that's usually never mentioned.

Network effect is a thing, Helm is the de facto "package manger" for Kubernetes program distribution. But this time there are generally no alternative instructions like

  tar xzf package.tar.gz; ./configure; make; adduser -u foo; chown -R foo /opt/foo