Comment by kendallpark

With all due respect, I don't want to go into all the details of a previous employer and their relationship with that client so that people on the internet can retrospectively tell me whether I made the right call or not.

Suffice to say, as I've leveled up as a developer over the years, there are many decisions I've later realized were naive or misinformed.

With all the knowledge and experience I have now: I have zero regrets about the above standoff.

FWIW if someone told a dev to FTP-cowboy develop at that company now, they'd be the one getting fired. When I was there, the company was in the midst of transitioning into more serious web dev practices.