I doubt system administrators are against operating systems having better data structures for configuration or storage. In fact administrators might be more in

I doubt system administrators are against operating systems having better data structures for configuration or storage. In fact administrators might be more in favor of structure since they are the ones who do the most ad-hoc scripting on machines. Developers can largely insulate themselves from the operating system with frameworks, libraries, and databases. Anyway, system administrators, outside of BOFH types, and developers generally aren't at odds with each other.