> It doesn't help that, at least in my experience, a lot of "pure" software developers absolutely want nothing to do with the ops side, preferring to work on new features and just code, and vice versa.
I have almost the exact opposite problem with some of my team, where they want to spend a lot more time on the Operational side. This is a mixed blessing - they'll learn the depths of various AWS things that are painfully boring to me - but I'd rather they were writing code instead of mucking around looking for some magic AWS solution to solve some specific use case.
This is true that from business perspective if there was a way to completely cut off engineers and replace them with low-code / saas offerings -> we all would be out of the job next week.
Fortunately for us engineering is quite complicated.
I have almost the exact opposite problem with some of my team, where they want to spend a lot more time on the Operational side. This is a mixed blessing - they'll learn the depths of various AWS things that are painfully boring to me - but I'd rather they were writing code instead of mucking around looking for some magic AWS solution to solve some specific use case.