K3s is fantastic especially for local development with Kubernetes when orchestrated using k3d. This is what we use for most of our internal K8s testing at OpenC3.
Yes, I recently moved my Dev team to K3D as well. Previously we were using AWS clusters that were spun up on demand every time someone needed to test something. the time needed to do this grew and grew overtime eventually coming close to 30 to 40 minutes. With k3d testing locally can be done in a minute. Plus I learned a ton about k8s while doing this.
