What I take off your plate
Custom plugins and blocks instead of a fifth plugin stacked on four others. WooCommerce checkout, shipping and tax logic. REST integrations with CRMs, ERPs and payment gateways. Child-theme code written so the parent theme can still be updated, all of it in version control rather than pasted into the admin.
The sites I usually inherit
Forty active plugins, three of them doing the same job. An admin that takes eight seconds to load because of autoloaded options. A theme edited in place, so updates were switched off years ago and nobody remembers why. The work is untangling that safely, not rebuilding it from scratch.
Where I stop
I am not a visual designer, and I will not sell a theme tweak as a custom build. If what you need is drag-and-drop pages, a page-builder specialist is cheaper. And if the site has outgrown WordPress, I will tell you so, because that is the point where a Laravel application starts to pay for itself.