I don’t think I will ever understand the desire to turn systems and security people like me into shitty developers.

It’s happening because devs dominate all now. There is nothing wrong with automation, but development is a completely different skill. And I’ve never met a dev who was even remotely as good as at systems, design, security or networking as even an average systems type. And rarely have I met a systems person who was a good dev.

Again: completely different skills. Though most devs cannot see that — they think because they’ve heard of an IP address and know what a SIEM is, they know all there is to know in that space.