[hobs]

I agree, and I think anyone whose complaining about SRE as a cult probably is writing a blog post to their company or their boss or their consulting consortium - they have a narrow focus of what's generally occurring.

Getting the idea of increasing quality to reduce cost understood by many higher ups can be a losing battle, especially when management changes ever 2-3 years.

It's almost always easier to cut spending than have some organizational breakthrough that standardizes delivery.