That's very cute but that doesn't mirror my experience with reality at all. Sysadmins are people who are hired with specific knowledge regarding maintenance and management of the infrastructure. They are expected to have operational knowledge, are not asked to design novel solutions to unforseen problems and are paid accordingly. Most sysadmins I have worked with become unpleasant when they reach the limits of their expertise not curious. Good sysadmins tend to leave the field for better paid position in engineering or get hired as SRE by large companies which is aking to moving to an engineering position because SRE work like engineer.

The idea that senior sysadmins are behind the push towards automation is amusing. The biggest shift in the field in the past two decades came from Google when they decided to solve the tension between developers and sysadmins by more or less firing their sysadmins and hiring engineers to do the job instead.