No one is arguing that a sysadmin job should be protected. The article is more of a reminder that the sysadmin responsibilities don't disappear because we paper

No one is arguing that a sysadmin job should be protected. The article is more of a reminder that the sysadmin responsibilities don't disappear because we paper over them. Containers are a great tool, but they can trick people into thinking that certain things aren't a problem merely because they have been swept under the rug operationally. With that in mind, I don't see sysadmins going anywhere soon. Every layer of abstraction is supposed to 'eliminate sysadmins', but inevitably it becomes yet another system that someone needs to audit and maintain.