Being a sysadmin was always about automation. DevOps brought nothing to the table about that. Neither tools nor paradigm. And the name is just another one for "

Being a sysadmin was always about automation. DevOps brought nothing to the table about that. Neither tools nor paradigm. And the name is just another one for "administering systems", if we keep what you seem to mean by DevOps. It's still no progress, hacky scripts written by sysadmins or similarly hacky scripts written by programmers, and systematic way of automating tasks was available to sysadmins and was used by them for a long time. DevOps brought nothing new to the table.