It's hard to find a word in the English language that is not a homonym, with several grammatical uses.

Yersterday, I went to the shooting range with my friends. We shot 3 different pistols, with a range of calibers. My groupings were tight with the 9mm at close range, but pretty loose with the .44 at 15 yards.
At the beginning of our session at the rifle range, the instructor told us, "The targets are ranged at 50 yard intervals from 100 to 300 yards. Range each target and estimate windage before each shot."
Oh yeah, I have a gas range in my kitchen.

Beating micro-stakes does not make you a worse player, but it does make you use a limited "tool box" of moves. If you learn to beat the micros, and then think you are a 100% pro who has mastered the game, then you're clearly deluded. Of course there are a lot more skills to learn and use as you move up in the stakes, many of which are not very useful at the micros.

If you are successfully adjusting your game to beat your opponents, then you should be playing a ridiculously exploitable style at 4NL. The thing is that Villains at 4NL wont be adjusting to exploit you, so that's the correct strategy for you. At higher stakes, the Villains will not suck as bad and they will be adjusting to you more, so playing such an obviously exploitable style will not be winning anymore.