I wish that dedicated Ops people still existed. From what I can tell, DevOps has just meant less butter scraped over more pieces of toast.
I used to be able to say to customers, "Our product needs a VM with xyz specs, and access to a database, and incoming HTTP connections," and their Ops team would take that recommendation and go spin it up. Now I'm dragged into the weeds of every little detail, because I'm really dealing with a PM who used to be a support person and doesn't have basic competency doing Ops work. Part of this is that Azure and AWS have made spinning up resources so easy that people can do it without knowing what they are doing.
I used to be able to say to customers, "Our product needs a VM with xyz specs, and access to a database, and incoming HTTP connections," and their Ops team would take that recommendation and go spin it up. Now I'm dragged into the weeds of every little detail, because I'm really dealing with a PM who used to be a support person and doesn't have basic competency doing Ops work. Part of this is that Azure and AWS have made spinning up resources so easy that people can do it without knowing what they are doing.