Bare metal kubernetes is certainly a lot less complete out of the box when it comes to networking and storage but, people can, and often should, use a managed k8s service which provides all those things out of the box. And if you’re on bare metal once the infra team has abstracted away everything into LoadBalancers and StorageClasses it’s basically the same experience for end users of the cluster.
If you're talking about OpenShift on rented commodity compute, maybe. If you're talking about GKE/AKS/EKS or similar, I disagree wholeheartedly; you're then paying several multiples on the compute and a little extra for Kubernetes.
