Troubleshooting and mitigating an outage always take priority over anything else. In that sense on call is my job, and I could wake my entire team or ask them t

Troubleshooting and mitigating an outage always take priority over anything else. In that sense on call is my job, and I could wake my entire team or ask them to drop everything else if I really needed to. But if I understand the design and code well enough to do that, why wouldn’t I also work on features and fixes in between outages? Why divide the roles when you have to choose among the same small group of people for either?