I think part of this issue is: what is a sysadmin? That’s a pretty hard question to answer today. Maybe it was more straight forward in the 80s or 90s. But if y

I think part of this issue is: what is a sysadmin? That’s a pretty hard question to answer today. Maybe it was more straight forward in the 80s or 90s. But if you go to /r/sysadmin you have desktop support, help desk, office 365 admins who only use a gui, solo it guy in a small business, and also programmers, devops, cloud architects and network engineers. The sysadmins who were already automating large amounts of tasks for n Unix servers and k switches with p services, had a vastly different skill set and migrated to the more modern software defined devops SRe world no problem. But plenty of sysadmins basically could (and some still) only use a gui, and do things from trial and error. Those people might have retired or become managers, but they had a lot more issues with the transition. Which to be fair the transition happened fast and hard in some companies.