Not meaning to come off as trite, but I know my response will sound like I am. But, what you described is exactly why senior devs/engineers make 2x, 3x, 4x a j

Not meaning to come off as trite, but I know my response will sound like I am. But, what you described is exactly why senior devs/engineers make 2x, 3x, 4x a junior. Seniors make more because they have that extra knowledge you're talking about that can take a decade or more to accumulate. The idiosyncrasies between different DBMS or even languages or even specific versions of languages. That knowledge doesn't come cheap. It literally takes upon years to develop. This is partially why I think bootcamps are bullshit. I'm sorry, but there is no way to become a competent full-stack developer, especially if you're not targeting web/browser. Give me someone with 3 months of bootcamp C++, I'd be surprised if they can get a nontrivial program to link, let alone compile.