The thing is that most HN folks, competent IT people see tools like Terraform, ansible, docker et al as neat tools that simplify and speed up annoying chores, so you get to spend your time on solving actual problems. What it means to managers is that task X has become so easy that you can hire complete idiots who would've failed without the tool but now manage to cobble something together quickly that appears to work well. Except you now have passwords and keys in repos, open s3 buckets, ...