It sounds more like MLops does fall into devops or data engineering but it expands the definition. That data engineers or devops people don’t have the backgrou

It sounds more like MLops does fall into devops or data engineering but it expands the definition. That data engineers or devops people don’t have the background to do MLops doesn’t mean MLops is outside of those disciplines. MLops increasingly seems like a very specific version of these things with unique challenges. Whether or not serving models fits “traditional” methods seems irrelevant.