I do not mean to be condescending. I am being literal. Every job is hard, and the pay is not exactly commensurate with effort. Ops is absolutely hard and ther

I do not mean to be condescending. I am being literal. Every job is hard, and the pay is not exactly commensurate with effort. Ops is absolutely hard and theres a lot to learn. And in doing so you generally may end up with DevOps teams with minimal to zero domain knowledge in what the company delivers to end users. So if you have a team of people who built a deep level of expertise in something over 10, 15, 20 years and that something is business facing, domain knowledge, etc.. then it is not of value to have their time spent on other tasks. Often these DevOps roles are filled by more junior staff at the earlier stages of their career. This is another reason the staffing is usually lower cost.