Yes, it is. Kubernetes is insanely complicated. Nomad is industrial grade but still simple.
This article displays an astounding level of ignorance about how to run workloads absent a container orchestrator.
If you run a docker container on autoscaling EC2 instances that register with a target group, you have apparently "written your own orchestrator."
I am reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.