Some shops are hit and miss.
10 years ago I got my first front drive, a 1997 Buick LeSabre. Shop A told me I needed a new ball joint when I was getting new tires, so I let them do it for me. I could see the joint was sloppy, so I had no trouble letting do the work at the same time.
When I picked up the car, it appeared to have what I thought was torque steer. Because this was my first front drive, and I had experienced torque steer on a Honda Prelude once, I was thinking that was normal. For a bit. By day 2, I realized that couldn't be normal for torque steer. GM wouldn't make something with torque steer that bad, so I went back to the shop. The mechanic looked at it and said I needed new struts all around, so I made the appointment for it. On my way home, I realized that bad struts couldn't make torque steer like that, unless a strut mount was actually loose or something. I went to shop B and they showed me that the ball joint was missing the cotter pin, and had 2-3 thread left before the whole thing fell out. They tightened it up for me and installed a cotter pin, and I had to pay them a small sum for their time and "shop supplies" (a big scam among all the shops around here).
Fine, I figured this shop was good and honest. When it came time for an alignment, I went to shop B who said they could do alignments. They told me this vehicle was just a 2 wheel alignment, but I knew it was a 4 wheel alignment as it had an independent suspension, and it did have toe and camber adjustments on the rear suspension. They still insisted it was a 2 wheel alignment. I guess they didn't know much about alignments, but were trying to get my business. So shop B, which appeared honest at first, and they had done good work for basic mechanics, was not so honest in the end.
I have found a good shop since that works with the DIY. They are busy enough that if you can do something yourself properly, they respect that. They tell me that they have some people that bring in vintage cars all the way from California for work. I figure it must have been one or two customers worth from California, but they are busy and respect the work I've done. They even recommend work I can do on my own.