knative is interesting, giving you a fairly concise deployment config and more interestingly to me, scale to zero. It does this by making use of retries and queue buffers.
If you just did k get svc on a Knative owned service,
you might be very confused on what it points to (nothing).
Instead, you have to look at the Endpoints object backing the service,
which will point to the internal load balancer.
Scaling to zero really relies on your load balancer to buffer requests. It also means the calling code can't be too smart and decide to peek at the Service's backing pods directly, (because they might not exist).
An example is contour and its external authorization setup. You give it a Service and it tries (and fails) to connect. It doesn't really work with knative. If only I could just give it an url to connect to.
While having everything be kubernetes native objects and referencing each other might sound like a good idea, I think Knative is much more suited to a loosely connected world via urls, and each service exists in isolation from each other and the rest of kubernetes.