I don’t understand this take - if all engineers go on call, they learn real quick what happens when their coworkers are too innovative. It is a good feedback loop that teaches them not to make unreliable software.

SREs are great when the problem is “the network is down” or “kubernetes won’t run my pods”, but expecting a random engineer to know all the failure modes of software they didn’t build and don’t have context on never seems to work out well.