I did that once, employed someone on Fiverr to do a WordPress site. They installed a load of plugins for no reason, made a mess, then gave me my money back. I went back to a static site.

That has been my experience, low barrier to entry, low price, shoddy work. Or hire an agency, pay top dollar for little work.

Ha, yeah that's the other side of it — low barrier to entry cuts both ways. The WordPress talent pool is huge but unfiltered. Still, the fact that pool exists at all is what keeps WordPress dominant. Nobody's hiring Fiverr gigs to customize an EmDash site yet.