WHY is it that when seeking persons to get my weeding done, they always want to cut the grass. Grass mowing is not a trade, its more like a hobby, and is so easy to do, no wonder everyone wants to do it, and they have the cheek to charge up to £50, for the pleasure of mowing your lawn. My lawn is approx 40 x 40ft and this job can be done easiily within 30mins. when the lawn has been done, they buzz off and say they will return to do the weeding, but they never come back. So now I offer lawn cutting as a bonus job AFTER the weeding has been done. I am a Pensioner and pay £20 per hour for a so-called gardener and will no longer be ripped-off for lawn cutting to persons that even wanna use my mower. Well you did ask !.

It IS hard to find people to do the 'detail work' that gardens usually need.
I agree, lawn mowing is pretty unskilled, that is part of the appeal of lawns to many people.
Yet here I keep adding gardens, trying to reduce my lawn footprint.
But I am going to do more mulching, to reduce my weeding and mowing. Mulch for paths under trees, and mulch any bare ground between my chosen plants.

There are people that prefer actual gardening.
A yard that I've been maintaining for 25+ years has almost no turf left...

Each time the homeowner asked about a patch of turf that wasn't performing... My first solutions were always "what would grow better instead of the turf?"
A little research, and another patch of turf that got taken out in favor of something that took less maintenance and was a better pollinator resource.
As far as mowing?
Those "gardeners who mow" may not know enough to even do that...
There are aspects to mowing that those "mow and blow" companies commonly fail with...

Like... I've seen plants in mulched beds get cut down with string trimmers... they also tend to run the edger and leave the encroaching turf still rooted in the flower bed... Better not to touch the beds... rather than make cleaning up after the turf guy so much harder...

And... let's try to get over our anger at the guys that destroy trees with those string trimmers...

And... those people that like to destroy yards by putting heavy equipment on them while the soil is soft...