I guess all this rests on the assumption that Alice did something relevant in all that time she saved. If features A, B, C and D. Basically you seem to assume that each or some of those are relevant software development work and not just more WordPress deployments.<p>I guess the point is use pre-packaged tools when possible. But <i>somebody</i> has to write new software, so you better get some experience in doing that if you want to be a software developer.