I dont think many people would be excited at the thought of going from handcrafted artisan knitting to babying machines in the knitting factory. You need a certain type of autism to be into the latter.
Fortunately this is the software industry. We've got a lot of those autists and that automating urge is the best part about software. If someone don't like the idea of sitting around babysitting factories of machines they certainly shouldn't go into DevOps. It would be safest to just avoid programming in general, given how much of the industry centres on figuring out how to deploy huge amounts of computing power in an autonomous fashion.
I'd think it would be more autistic to continue to use and have interest in something that's been superseded by something far more easier and efficient.
Who would you think is weirder, the person still obsessed with horse & buggies, or the person obsessed with cars?
