I didn't think you were wrong I just thought the exchange and its tone was very stereotypical of Developers and Operations (and I was amused). Each being on their side of the fence and only throwing things over the top.

It used to be really bad... "works on my machine", bad deploy instructions etc. We paved a lot of these roads with (really fucking bad) strategies like containers. At some point maybe we will learn to write software that is operationalizable. Projects like tigerbeetle give me hope that this is our next evolution.