I agree with you that poor software engineering has ops implications, having supported trashy production apps with appalling memory leaks. However, I don't beli

I agree with you that poor software engineering has ops implications, having supported trashy production apps with appalling memory leaks. However, I don't believe that knowing ops necessarily makes you a 'better' software engineer — the beneficiary here is not the software industry (or said software engineer), but your employer specifically, because they now get to hire one person who will do everything. The same goes for the rise of the fullstack developer, who god forbid should get paid a dime more than a backend engineer. I'm advocating for the controversial idea that people should get paid more if they are capable of (and doing) more. I don't think your article itself is very novel or controversial (i.e., it's good old regular stuff), so I'm steering the direction of the discussion towards something I find more interesting.