I have sympathy for the author and find a lot of the criticism a bit harsh.

On my teams, I tend to be the person put in the role of doing DevOps-ish work because it's something I'm familiar with. I honestly find it incredibly stress inducing. It seems to me there is an asymmetry in the risk of work between team members that never gets captured by management.

There are degrees of difference with security and data concerns in regards to frontend versus backend versus devops tasks. There is some work that can carry the risk of permanent and irreversible data loss, yet everywhere I've worked, it is apportioned as a regular tasks. Failures like Ops are first and foremost an organizational issue.