[vectorEQ]

sounds like you have a lot of programmers and little system engineers / 'devops' engineers. in my opinion it's a different kind of person who can fight environmental details into working with some programs (i.e setting up some environment / server and getting everything tested / deployed) than a person who can write the thing being deployed. Generally i think both have very different information to their disposal. Someone who makes a life out of tying things together, will know a lot of these 'things' he ties together, like ldap/ad,dns,okta,random_api_xxx,etc. where a programmer might know just as much sorting algorithm as and methods to make efficient linked data structures as this other person knows different apis and python modules...

[jaabe]

What good is a developer who can’t deliver outside of a debugging/development environment?

I mean, I get what you are saying, but who can afford people who are that specialised?

[gizmo686]

A lot of places. The role of "devops" not withstanding, develment vs operations is one of the first distinctions to specialize in.