Note that the same argument could be applied to developers.  We can rewrite your statement as:<p><i>Developers were a nadaid for the period where insufficiently advanced software existed. The generally obstructionist principles of the profession combined with the complete lack of discipline in constructing those aforementioned sites and programs spells doom that we (as an industry) are busily automating out of existence.</i><p>Whatever your arguments are against that reasoning, it would be interesting to see if they also applied to system administrators.