If you think of an SRE as an expensive sysadmin then yes, you should absolutely scratch that entire org. SRE, by Google's definition, is supposed to contain sof

If you think of an SRE as an expensive sysadmin then yes, you should absolutely scratch that entire org. SRE, by Google's definition, is supposed to contain software engineers with deep systems expertise, not some kind of less-qualified SWEs.