I do not feel as you do.  I do believe there is more laziness with certain clients. But what I'm finding is every client has become more complicated in their tax return.  Their simple K-1 now has a ten thousand page K-2/K-3.  All of a sudden the K-1 is now 14 states with 6 being composite returns and the other 8 we have to file.  The simple return now has a rental property they inherited in Switzerland or wherever. The simple return now has twelve brokerage accounts, three crypto accounts and more.  This foreign reporting is becoming a nightmare.  And no, you're return is no longer $250.  Sorry.  

And yesterday I tried to reorder paper.  It went from $37 per case to $92 per case in 8 months.  Having a paperless office I needed 9 cases for almost a thousand dollars.  t's nuts!