I don't know why you're forwarding a false dichotomy here, there's a lot more than doomscrolling and writing Ansible playbooks if you don't have children, and there's a lot more work to having children than tending an idyllic garden. And it's not as if you won't be up at 9 pm fixing production issues and rewriting Ansible playbooks even with children. In other words, one does not replace the other.