[TZubiri]

"They aren't paying you to integrate a bunch of third-party dependencies either, especially not when you could be using the time to generate actual business value."

They might, but in my experience, it's bottom of the barrel clients playing out of their league. Example, a single store that is using shopify and wants to migrate to their own website because the fees are too high, might pay 500-1000$ for you to build something with wordpress and woocommerce, or worse, a mysql react website.