>And I personally always fall back on: "this complexity is why I get paid more then most people".

This is pretty cringeworthy. If your tools are introducing enough incidental complexity that it needs to be reflected in your compensation, i'd argue your tools are failing your company badly.

You should be paid more to reflect a higher level of technical or domain expertise relative to other engineers, not to account for your ability to glue together a mish-mash of poorly documented and half-baked technologies.