But that makes no sense. I work in an industry that primarily revolves around storage / archival / uptime critical servers. Developers rarely if ever cross my path. My day to day stuff is trending, predictive, and proactive action on failure. You claim that developers make the money. Last time I checked without us grunts there wouldn't be any money to make.
...and without developers to create apps and users to then use the apps, and support staff to help the users, then why are you setting up anything in the first place?
you are simply the first step in the process - and thus, when your part is done, it is done and not a case of continuing care and feeding (use the cracker jack box boy for new accounts) if everything was done correctly the first time.
This is getting a wee bit silly. A perfectly working network is of zero value - its a conduit for software to run. No software - no purpose for the network/storage. Of course if there is no network then there is no vehicle for the software so both sides are needed.
Network engineers are analogous to those the build highways and maintain traffic flow devices and developers are analogous to people that design and build the vehicles that use the roads - saying one is more important than the other is rather silly.