Profoundly disagree. In fact, your statements are not true, since before you can run a pod you will most probably need to create a deployment. And then you'll need a service to expose your workload.

Anything but the most trivial workloads will also lead you into questions of how to mount volumes, cijfure) use configmaps and secrets, etc.

And that's not even touching the cluster configuration, which you can skip over if you are using a cloud provider that can provision it for you.