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That's not even the main problem with the comparison. Suppose it was actually $6/hour. Even that's >$50k/year, indefinitely.

How long does it take your team once to make that resource consumption go away permanently? An hour? Even a month? You'd still be ahead.

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Working for a smaller digital agency, while using .NET Framework, and then moving to .NET Core (now just .NET) this savings was felt. Using a performance profiler and slightly complicating the code a bit (at least in terms of the documentation for the CMS we use), I was able to get the code in less than the minimum recommended requirements for the base CMS software, without having to alter the source of the CMS. I did this with the Umbraco CMS, but also started using it in 2013 when the documentation was lacking, so reading the source code was a requirement to getting as much as possible out of the software.

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