20 years ago, when I was trying to enter the field, sysadmins were almost all former developers who had a pretty fundamental understanding of operating systems.
Somewhere along the way "sysadmin" became a euphemism for helpdesk, and some folks thought "devops" (as a job title) was new, but it was just the same old sysadmins really, or new devs becoming new sysadmins with the fresher title, they felt themselves the vanguard of a new paradigm, I'm sure.
Now we're in the same situation again, where "devops" (as a job title) can have no development experience. So we need a new term, apparently.
Maybe gatekeeping is useful to stop this job title treadmill.
Somewhere along the way "sysadmin" became a euphemism for helpdesk, and some folks thought "devops" (as a job title) was new, but it was just the same old sysadmins really, or new devs becoming new sysadmins with the fresher title, they felt themselves the vanguard of a new paradigm, I'm sure.
Now we're in the same situation again, where "devops" (as a job title) can have no development experience. So we need a new term, apparently.
Maybe gatekeeping is useful to stop this job title treadmill.