I really like the idea of gateway and what it provides us the ability to do. But the DX around getting it up and running is not where it should be for what is now the recommended replacement to a core feature.

Ingress worked as well as it did because it was there by default, we only had to provide the controller that used the resources and charts that provided ingress resources could because the type was generally known. But to move to the recommend approach using gateway we are required to not only install the controller, but install the crds for gateway which now introduces an addition layer of version management which charts cannot predict.

If you want us to start using it seriously we really need to think of the experience around it and look and pulling it into Kubernetes core