Infrastructure in enterprises is usually completely uninteresting, to be fair. You need like eight different people on a call in order to stand up a VM, install a service, and configure a database connection.

Broken processes and missing self-service, as you point out, is why creating a platform team is important for these types of places. They might not know it yet, although some are trying.

It doesn’t make the infra technology more or less interesting?

Or any CS field for that matter.