I don't know, maybe I'm not representative of most developers as I do devops for my side businesses, but I feel like I don't understand a technology well enough

I don't know, maybe I'm not representative of most developers as I do devops for my side businesses, but I feel like I don't understand a technology well enough until I can handle both the development and the ops side and the ops side often feels like a prerequisite for properly handling the dev side.