The whole point of “DevOps” was to not have a separate platform/deployment/operations team. Each development team should handle everything needed to build, test

The whole point of “DevOps” was to not have a separate platform/deployment/operations team. Each development team should handle everything needed to build, test, deploy, and monitor production code. Every time I have been on a team where that was not the case, the result was bloated complexity and more failures in production. Usually because the platform/deployment/operations team was composed of not very skilled developers trying to justify their salary to management. If you have worked with a platform/deployment/operations team that was competent and reduced complexity then great for you. I have yet to experience such a phenomenon. Please let me know in comments why you think your experience was different.