> If you look at a DevOps engineer job description, it looks remarkably similar to a System Administrator role from 2013, but with some containers and cloud provider management instead of racking and stacking servers.
This is true of many new methodologies/philosophies in software engineering. Many orgs implement Agile in a way that looks more like waterfall than something described by the Agile Manifesto. Remember microservices? Many large orgs that implemented them ended up building gnarly "Enterprise SOA" messes.
It seems the old guard will always bend their deeply-ingrained habits only enough to stay relevant. So a lot of the time, that means carrying forward the old habits and diluting the philosophy of newer methodologies.
This is true of many new methodologies/philosophies in software engineering. Many orgs implement Agile in a way that looks more like waterfall than something described by the Agile Manifesto. Remember microservices? Many large orgs that implemented them ended up building gnarly "Enterprise SOA" messes.
It seems the old guard will always bend their deeply-ingrained habits only enough to stay relevant. So a lot of the time, that means carrying forward the old habits and diluting the philosophy of newer methodologies.