Well, you're right, I'm not a sysadmin. I pervasively automate, which often sidelines sysadmins, when it doesn't make them redundant. I write code and I don't touch production machines except in extremity, neither of which apply to most (though by no means all) of the people I know who want to call themselves a sysadmin.

Anyway, the core mission of anybody touching the stack is to enable the business to achieve its goals. Nothing, and I mean nothing, more. "Restricting that environment" is appropriate in some environments, and a number of my clients bring me in to help with that. Facilitating developer velocity--and, yes, developers do tend to like me, because I'm good at this while achieving goals around security and uptime--is appropriate in, probably, more. Pays better, too, even if it shouldn't.