At first, there was the mainframe and all was good.

Then Sun pushed out SPARC boxes with 3 mouse buttons (don't even LOOK at those let alone touch those sayeth the sysadmin)

Then we moved everything server side to the cloud, and virtualize everything in our dev environments.

In the future, I predict that things will come around full circle: quantum computing will bring us back to the Big Iron days of "don't even look at it, don't even touch it" but given cooling requirements of QCs these days you won't ever see it.

"All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again."