Do we live in the same town? That's been my experience exactly, many experiences have required walking briskly before a simple question becomes more than a yes or no answer and explaining why I don't have $20 or a meal on me. The times I do try to buy them a meal I've been lead to the most expensive restaurant nearby (be threw away my meal I got him at Subway).
Anything to keep ourselves comfortable. That's one of the reasons I see that we have representatives - so the population at large doesn't have to bear the burden of doing dirty work.
We then in the same breath complain about government but put forth no effort to fix it.
I may not be in the business (and this is not an ad), but I could likely build the same site in about 30 minutes and charge a tenth of the price to recover the cost of Copilot in VS Code for a year.
Human-built has its place, but it's hard to justify when the price is so much higher for a relatively repetitive task that produces the same results.