Yep. Plenty of people on the market with experience, and your employees know it’s a skill with market value, so they won’t resent your choice and start eyeing the door.
Makes sense. And with LLMs training on what is publicly available, this becomes self-fulfilling, because you'll get better answers from AI about what is popular - not what is technically superior.
That's already true on forums where answers depend on humans. It's possible that LLMs will make it even more prevalent but they won't have started the phenomenon.
I don't think most companies can say why they're not at least isolating workloads with something like Kata Containers and why they're using only glorified cgroup jails, have an inventory of all the services they're running and why, can point to which machines have authoritative copies of data, how they back it up without replicating corruption, and how they'd do disaster recovery/BCP on it.