I feel this is more about IT departments lowering their bar to satisfy their staffing needs fueled by lowering the bar in the previous round. It's a vicious cycle and a well known one, even in other fields.

Because many "engineers" do not have a solid understanding of the field, companies have been exploiting that by using and promoting solutions that would have been otherwise dismissed with very annoyed faces. Even docker would have been dismissed, as "cool but it has safety issues, so go home and redo your implementation".