Current situation and hype aside — obviously software engineering is more wide and flexible term than just devops. As it is now. Modern devops knowledge is mo

Current situation and hype aside — obviously software engineering is more wide and flexible term than just devops. As it is now. Modern devops knowledge is mostly declarative (hence doesn’t inherently have as much value and is subject to stronger and stronger automation). While software engineers are the ones who usually automate things. And who’s knowledge is mostly procedural => more valuable. Of course all this is “other things equal” because these days one can find devops and programming jobs of any level of complexity/value/salary.