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> I've updated around 25 sites for an old friend (she's more into the design/content part, not the dev part) and made good money with that. "Stupid" work nevertheless, would've preferred to do something better than run a PHP 8 linter and see where it breaks

Exactly. It's work for our engineers but not something to get excited about. Plus you need to explain to the client why they're paying $1000 for something called "PHP" which they have no concept of.

>>josefr+(OP)
> It's work for our engineers but not something to get excited about.

Totally not, yeah!

My friend also was surprised/shocked that there were changes in the code necessary to keep those old sites up and running.

Next thing was installing and setting up the "OMGF" plugin to cache Google fonts for GDPR compliance. Stupid work, but quite a few billable hours.

I think the WordPress ecosystem really is... "struggling" (lack of a better word) with how the modern web and the world around it evolves.