The author didn't get DevOps (so don't many companies). It's not about putting developers on-call, it's about taking operational concerns into account early in the design of a piece of software and acknowledging that it's going to do much better in the wild when the people building it are also accountable to making it easy to operate.
Blaming DevOps (or full-stack, for that matter) for a toxic company culture is just too easy.
Blaming DevOps (or full-stack, for that matter) for a toxic company culture is just too easy.