Within your company, sure. But there's some engineers (think medical) who know standards like DICOM and PACS imaging but aren't familiar at all with OS internals or systems administration.
If you’re not a sysadmin, there’s no reason to wrestle around with OS internals and system tools. We have moved away from mainframes and now everyone is root on one’s computer, but honestly anything in /etc, /sbin and /usr/sbin should be irrelevant for daily workflows.