A recent survey hit on something I see all the time in cluster work: teams know they need automation, but 71% still require human review before any resource changes get applied. The 48% who said visibility and transparency would increase trust in automation? That's the actual problem.
When you're asking someone to approve a change they can't verify, you're not going to get buy-in. This isn't about trust in the automation algorithm. It's about trust in the person asking them to approve it blindly.
The Typical Breakdown
You've got a team running Kubernetes. Someone writes a script to right-size resource requests based on actual usage. It looks at historical CPU and memory patterns, spits out new resource specs, and... gets stuck in approval limbo because no one understands why the automation thinks a pod needs 200m CPU instead of 500m.
The reviewer sees: spec.containers[0].resources.requests.cpu: 500m → 200m
