The reason why it is attractive is to enable people who aren't ever going to get proficient at writing/debugging bash/sh to the level that you're at, to write enough bash/sh to get their jobs done both quickly and safely.
The majority of people doing DevOpsey kind of stuff aren't remotely experts with what they're working on, and won't ever be experts, but work still needs to get done.
Maybe if those people started visibly failing at their jobs, they'd either upskill or be forced out, and then the magical hand of the market would raise salaries for the rest of us.
Oh look you're basically me in 2006 thinking that all the sysadmins that couldn't be bothered to learn a real programming language needed to be replaced by people in India who weren't intellectually lazy (because I was a bit of an asshole and wrong).
The majority of people doing DevOpsey kind of stuff aren't remotely experts with what they're working on, and won't ever be experts, but work still needs to get done.