This sounds like people who say cars from the 70s are better because they are only mechanical and people can work on them with their own hands. And modern cars

This sounds like people who say cars from the 70s are better because they are only mechanical and people can work on them with their own hands. And modern cars are worse because they're so complex. This, of course, ignores that cars are better in basically every single way now. They're safer, more efficient, have more features, and admit it or not, more reliable. So yeah, pre-devops, managing infrastructure could've been simpler, but it did simpler things. There's an exponentially growing amount of data that servers need to handle. And 2005 tools can't handle it. The industry didn't scale out of it for fun, but necessity. Modern devops is more complicated, but it's better, so, whatever.