Yes, "DevOps" is basically an attempt to weed out the best sysadmins from the rest in the job market, because if you look for 'an experienced sysadmin' you'd usually find a guy who laid cables and replaced mice for 1000 Windows workstations instead of 10.
Many of the rest did, but not high quality scripts, and only in shell; not perl or python or tcl or ...
The lower rungs of sysadmin were happy to point and click on guis and lug and plug hardware.