Thing is, though, if somebody came to me even at my current place (which is very much a trailing-edge shop) with this as the majority of their priors, I probabl

Thing is, though, if somebody came to me even at my current place (which is very much a trailing-edge shop) with this as the majority of their priors, I probably couldn't hire them. Automation is not the future, automation is the present. The amount of very hand-o-matic stuff being suggested out of this document is inimical to one's employability in this field. Understanding how to systematize and automate is a more employable skill than having a very high-level understanding of, say, Active Directory.