[lostinthefield]

I've never seen a Wordpress site meeting only its "bare use case" that wouldn't have been better served by Wordpress.com itself (the hosted managed service) or Squarespace. The clients who've hired me did so explicitly to push Wordpress past its defaults, whether through the use of something like a page editor (WPBakery/Elementor/etc.) or an events plugin or another or some contact form... those are all basic, common usages that still require maintenance.

If their use was basic blogging, I try to steer them away from needing to hire a dev at all (why spend the money?).