>You can hack shit together with php + mysql, put in on a vps and you'll be treated like a sorcerer.
This times 1,000,000
This times 1,000,000
In 2009 I was hired to do mostly helpdesk / IT support for a printer/copier sales company, making $36k
By 2012 I was making over $80k, being taken on the annual company trips with the high sales earners (cabo, hawaii), etc..
All basically because I set up a web based dashboard that aggregated numbers that their Sales CRM stored in a SQL database, which saved the Sales Managers tons of time every week..
I continued building this out / milking it for a few years, adding new reports and features.
It was the worst spaghetti code you have ever seen, SQL statements placed inside of HTML tables, wow it makes me kind of sick thinking about it now, I did not know what I was doing.
None of that mattered though.
After doing this professionally for 20 years I've found that clients don't care what language, framework, hosting provider, etc you use to solve their problems. They don't care about your code quality, they don't care about your CI pipeline or any of that shit. They care if you have solved their problem for them, and that's it.
You're good. The principle of proximity applies, or was it locality of behavior?