Thanks Jerry...I wondered when you would chime in. Jerry is ANOTHER deep resource on our site and also talented, kind, intelligent and giving of his time and experiences/expertise.
Another variant in all of this is where you live and the type of diving you do. Jerry just hinted at that in his post. Sure you can do 130 or more in a controlled environment with only AOW and nitrox (depending on the mix) or equivalent certs. BUT if you have advanced certs and can dive deco gasses to off gas faster that TRAIN you to go deeper (safely) then you will enjoy these div es far more.
So many will say...if you are diving beyond your limits you are automatically not being safe. We'll let's look at that. If you have relatively few dives in whatever environment you are diving, then it does not matter how many dives you have total under your belt because you may be 'in over your head' and diving beyond your abilities. Heck you can have the cert but either be so new or have not dove the conditions you are facing despite now being certified for and guess what? You are 'in over your head' and not qualified. You can also have hundreds of dives to well over 60 ft and/or well over 100 and NEVER have gotten your advanced open water or advanced diver cert. Does that mean you are NOT an advanced diver? Well that depends on when you did those dives relative to you doing them now? How good you were to begin with, and if you have 1 dive 100 times or 100 actual dives that build upon each other? And of course it depends on the conditions of the water and sea conditions. If all your diving has been in warm water then those skills *may* not (and usually will not) transfer to cold water. If all your dives have been in freshwater they *may* not transfer to ocean dives and so on.
So many factors come into play. Heck all the above ALSO is contingent on how good or bad your instructor was? I've seen divers with 10 dives who out dove anytime any place divers with 50, 75 or even 100 dives. I recall one taking our Rent-A-Mentor program but arrived a day early to get a couple of extra dives in. He never mentioned he was doing the RAB/RAM program and I did not think to ask because he seemed way to comfortable and confident and acclimated to diving. He gave off the vibe of someone who's been doing it for years with hundreds of dives under his belt. He dove with me and I watched him instinctively at first as I do anyone I do not know but he dove like a merman and a natural...or someone with many many dives under his belt. Imagine my surprise when I find out he is my "rent-a-buddy for the week. I was so shocked I asked him why? He said he had just finished he cert dives so figured he needed some additional coaching and guidance. I laughed. In all my years helping new divers there was nothing I needed to tweak with him and I felt guilty taking his money. He insisted and so I racked my brain for what I could help him with to justify the program. Finally I asked his future diving goals and since he was not sure but wanted to be open to anything I started immediately working on advanced trim and form staying perfectly flat and with head bent back and knees bent up. He quickly mastered that trim and buoyancy and has never looked back. And he's been assumed to have hundreds of dives more than he has because of the EXCEPTIONAL training by his open water instructor. And then conversely I have seen divers who were certified that I could not fathom how they ever got certified and then I saw how their instructors dove and realized that they were 'zero to hero' instructors who went from open water to instructor from start to finish without any real 'experience' in between. Then they teach to that minimal level and well the rest is history.
So my point is that where you live and the conditions you dive and the philosophy of the instructors you have had all influence not only your diving but they also influence HOW something is done in a given area meaning that is usually no one correct answer or way...but rather a number of correct ways and answers.