I will agree partially, while I have always self-hosted and been interested in networking and enterprise hardware, it is/was always a means to an end. I've never really gotten along with people who don't care to learn why things were built the way the were but rather complain about how it didn't work they way they wanted it to.

Coming from 7 years as an engineer in the automotive field, dealing with mechanics that refuse to listen or learn but assert something isn't working how it "should" and point at the black box and say you built it, so you fix it.