In my experience, Matrix has a lot of misleading functionalities that drive people into enough of a false sense of security to out themselves.

I’m curious as to what these are, as I’m setting up a matrix server right now.

Have you looked into element.io/en/server-suite/community ?

I run my own server for friends and family. And there are more abd more optional addons that may have made that server suite a more sane place to start when selfhosting. I have not evaluated it tho, but thought you should know about it.

Is the idea to make it easier? Cause I am also setting up matrix atm. I don’t use kubernetes though. Or is the idea that it will be maybe perfectly aligned with the element client?

Afaik there is a docker compose as well. It is probably all of the above. Alignment with elements seems like it just by the name. And easier setupbif you want all the bells and whistles you can add onto matrix.
For some that might be a bad thingnif it exclude some clients. While other wsnt the features.

Why would it exclude some clients? Just protocols?