Actually, as a sysadmin, I sympathize with you, since I consider that kind of situation to be a sign of, essentially, bad system administration. It also sounds

Actually, as a sysadmin, I sympathize with you, since I consider that kind of situation to be a sign of, essentially, bad system administration. It also sounds like it might be at a larger company. Personally, I've always considered it a significant part of my job to make developers' jobs easier, especially with something like deployments and dependencies. As such, I disagree that we've brought our own "obsolesence" on ourselves, but I do agree that those of use who have perhaps forgotten that ours is a service profession have hastened its demise.