Great post. While I agree with this, "Automation shouldn't be about spending all your time with a tool ..." I wonder if employers are pressured to push you into more and more Ops work by this paradox? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

This kind of situation, specifically (relative to other work): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/JevonsPar...