I am having an identity crisis that thankfully is sorted out by being senior and close to retirement than early career days.

Since COVID I have seen teams scaled down, lots of custom development or devops/infra work work got replaced with SaaS and iPaaS cloud products, serverless/lambda, managed containers.

This is the next step.

Great that people feel more productive, unfortunely for many of them, us, more productivity means the C-suites can do some head count reduction yet again.