DevOps should really mean "Someone who builds systems and pipelines that allow developers to more seamlessly and sensibly deliver value to the end user".

What DevOps actually means in practice is "We had someone without any operations knowledge build a system before someone with the correct design skillset arrived, you can't remove it or change it because it is business critical, your job is now to maintain this like a classical Sysadmin would".

(I have been an Ops/DevOps engineer for slightly more than 15 years)