I'm idly toying with the idea of just switching to DevOps permanently and keeping my programming as a hobby. I still consider myself a Java dev first and foremost, but since I switched to DevOps I've had less stress.
Still, I'd take DevOps problems any day over pure programming.
My devops consists of uploading files via scp and launching an executable via ssh.
"modern" devops involves a confusing web of config files and programs whose names I don't even want to remember.
I'd go further and argue that probably a lot of what makes "modern" web development terrible is kind of downstream from "modern" devops.