I know the CW is that sysadmin/devops is being automated away, and a lot of people think programming is about automating all the things (or at least as much as

I know the CW is that sysadmin/devops is being automated away, and a lot of people think programming is about automating all the things (or at least as much as you can), but doesn't what you're saying prove that they aren't obsolete for large-scale providers?