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I may be fundamentally misunderstanding what infrastructure software is, but it sounds an awful lot like a bandaid that's only necessary because our operating systems are all designed for the computing problems of 25 years ago.

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Infrastructure software helps avoid directly managing hardware. You can change an OS all you want but that won't change the problem of managing physical resources (storage, network, compute).

Wasn't that precisely supposed to be the operating system's job? One, virtualising (Processes in Unix are little virtual machines), and two, hardware resources management (file systems, time sharing, ...).

Distributed operating systems tried to do that for multiple computers, but instead we get ad-hoc crap on top of single machine OS'es. Progress!

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