I feel like Red hat has pulled off a remarkable marketing feat with Ansible.
I'm my work I consult with a lot of different sysadmins and have to be conversant in whatever they are using and that includes Ansible for a big chunk of the industry.
I'd say for about 90% of people I've worked with using ansible heavily after getting the hang of it, when they are being honest they don't see what it is getting them (generally it's a lot more tedious but not better than alternatives), but are afraid to admit it because "not getting Ansible" might be seen as being inadequate in the industry. And this is only counting the folks that I consider to have gotten far enough to be competent in Ansible, reflecting experiences of people who know how to use it, but still don't understand why they should see it as "helpful". Lots of people don't make it that far (and those folks are even more shy because they think themselves "dumb" for not getting it ).