> SRE was always a lame job description and so was the entire "DevOps" movement we had to suffer through during ZIRP. Real ones are oncall for the systems they build.

You're conflating a whole lot of different models here. In fact, "developers should be on call for the systems they build" is a principle that most schools of DevOps thought emphatically subscribe to.

Yea cause you wouldn't escalate to 50 people on the weekend when one person can do it. Op is basically saying they never worked on a big enough system.