Engineers should spend their time innovating, not maintaining the infrastructure

Looks like an ad for TiDB disguised as an opinion piece.

Focusing on specific tools and promoting the idea that “engineers” should innovate rather than maintain business infrastructure leads to narrow-skilled prima donnas and fewer career options.

If they don't spend time maintaining the infrastructure, then how do they know where they should be innovating?

I think the major point of this article is for engineers to focus on innovation for business, rather than optimizing infra to support app new trial. Then a scalable and agile stack is critical for choice.

If you're always focused on just building new shit instead of maintaining the stuff you build, then you will always be building nothing but shit.

Try doing nothing but building new toilets without ever understanding how they work in the real world, and without learning any lessons about how they work at scale.

There has got to be a good balance. Without that, you are lost, as is everyone else that is involved in that project.

Or toss engineer as a title in the IT ecosystem and go back to DEVELOPERS and sys/network admins....