The vast majority of people who called themselves DevOps were opportunist corporatists looking to get a promotion. It became less Ops as in operations and more Ops as in opponent. These people were haphazardly given the keys to production and I was often bullied by their ability to control it. Management needs to know if my application was running? They asked DevOps who often came back with lies in order to fit their own career objectives.

I apologize if my words were sharp because many DevOps engineers were not mean to me. Perhaps I just had bad luck to deal with ignorant gatekeepers to production. You already know if my opinion doesn't apply to you.