Personal Opinion:
If you/your company's goal is to achieve micro-services, kubernetes or any new shiny technology, then you are thinking it wrong.

These tools are a means to an end. They should be a solution to an issue you are facing/will certainly face. They should not be your end goal.

I never learned any of that and im doing damn well

Yeah, the number of times I've seen monoliths split up into 50 microservices and no-one can tell me why is a bit scary.

My company's goal is make terrible tech choices, increase tech debt to the point of no return, and make every employee's life a living hell.

When the monolith becomes micro services, and every piece of integration there on has to be a micro service, so that micro service aggregators can be used to extract the data you used to just run a query for... well yea, no one knows where the source of truth is anymore for some of the data.

@C0D4 the company I work for has this problem. I have started to say, each micro service must be the source of truth for something or combine two unrelated sources of truth. It seems to have the business being more contemplative.