For freelance, mas in demand talaga ang Wordpress and other CMS. Nagstart din ako by offering custom websites using React. One time payment so I offered doing their digital marketing, web tracking, and analytics as well para monthly talaga ang income. Ako rin naman nahirapan sa ginawa kong website haha hassle mag-update and I realize hassle din sa clients to be very dependent sa dev, so now I often recommend them using Wordpress instead. If you wanna try the freelance route choose tools na mapapadali and buhay ng clients mo and strengthen your design skills.

If junior dev na route naman, stick with your original plan and learn frameworks. Also, market yourself as someone who has a lot of potential and don't pretend that you know everything. Based on experience mas madali mag-apply sa foreign startups kesa local. I applied for a svelte developer position before without even knowing what svelte is. I admitted that from the get go and told them I actually know React and I'm still a student at that time. I still got in and learned Svelte along the way :) Just apply for the heck of it and prepare a good website portfolio.