I mean I used to be a tier 4 oncall at Amazon and had global root access, managed the configuration management infrastructure and had enable access on all the n

I mean I used to be a tier 4 oncall at Amazon and had global root access, managed the configuration management infrastructure and had enable access on all the networking equipment. I'm criticizing the SRE role from a background of having a very high level of understanding of difficult operational roles. The selling point to me 10 years ago was that it would break down the wall so that people like me could also have access to the source code and be SWEs (instead of having to strace a black box all the time), but it seems like the job has become significantly dumbed down from the systems side, and SREs tend to grow out of the software teams and are the people responsible for the pager, metrics, SLOs, hacking up turing computable YAML, memorizing the whole CNCF landscape, and yelling at Kubernetes.