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I joined the industry when "Systems Administrator" was becoming a generic term for "person who adds users to a server". Same thing happened to "DevOps": Google made some noise about how cool it was for coders to do Ops work, so people started assuming "DevOps" meant "a coder who adds users to a server". Stupid people come to stupid conclusions and popularity cements the new definition. Same thing with the terms "hacker", "skinhead", etc. C'est la vie.

DevOps died because it was a handful of engineers trying to force a movement about solving business problems. We were never going to be successful. Business people need to push the movement, not us.

That said, we can continue the movement anyway, if only to improve our own work. If more true DevOps faithful become managers, then directors, then VPs, then maybe in 30 years engineering orgs won't be run as horribly as they are now.