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To avoid sysadmin tasks, and keep costs down, you've got to go so deep in the cloud, that it becomes just another arcane skill set. I run most of my stuff on virtual Linux servers, but some on AWS, and that's hard to learn, and doesn't transfer to GCP or Azure. Unless your needs are extreme, I think sysadmin'ing is the easier route in most cases.
I predict a slow but unstoppable comeback of the sysadmin job over the next 5-10 years.
It never disappeared in some places. In my region there's been zero interest in "the cloud" because of physical remoteness from all major GCP/AWS/Azure datacenters (resulting in high latency), for compliance reasons, and because it's easier and faster to solve problems by dealing with a local company than pleading with a global giant that gives zero shits about you because you're less than a rounding error in its books.