Thank you for sharing — sounds like we've had different experiences but I can absolutely see how poorly implemented devops is worse than well-implemented ops.
I've written about operationalizing design and design/engineering collaboration for a while now, and work at a frontend cloud PaaS... So I appreciate hearing from folks outside of my own bubble!
The path from idea to production was arduous for frontend and design back in these days. I for one appreciate being able to deploy frontend changes to production in just a few minutes, which the cloud + SRE + DevOps mindsets have helped democratize.