Hi Dan.
I visit this forum from time to time, hoping that there would be some kind of substantial progress, but unfortunately nothing much is happening.
With Claude and other AI tools, there should be no excuses of any kind to move forward. I have seen a non-programmer (zero coding experience) build a complex music software from scratch in 6 weeks of casual prompting.
The ball is in your court like never before. Adding, refactoring, it takes 100x faster now (and cleaner) than a few short years ago. Please don't let VA die like a fish on hot sand. Charge reasonably / make your flock happy.