100%. I'm not really sure why we all agreed that deployment is somehow the hardest thing that you need to outsource when setting the linux server is one the richest experience you can get and it will pay dividents forever.
Stop with this "we" cliche already, please. I never agreed to it and I'm in the profession for 24 years. You don't speak for me.
Executives will always prefer to transfer liability and responsibility to someplace else.
Who's calling the shots in an organization? Engineers or executives?
There's a multibillion dollar industry that lives only because they managed to successfully convince an entire generation of "engineers" to become helpless and not be able to serve an HTTP response using their own hardware even if their life depended on it.