Doing freelance/contracting in Monterey, CA...my experience with clients requesting work on Wordpress sites or asking you to build them a site with Wordpress do

Doing freelance/contracting in Monterey, CA...my experience with clients requesting work on Wordpress sites or asking you to build them a site with Wordpress don't want to pay people very much. They tend to ask for fairly complex features, and get upset when it requires a programmer to actually program instead of installing some "plugin".