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I'm a builder (yeah, don't all shoot me at once). If someone asks me to change a lightbulb (they don't) or install a cantilevered floating staircase - per hour (not that it will take me an hour to change the bulb, but you get my drift) my time costs the same. But I put an unqualified labourer onto the simple jobs and charge for their time accordingly and put more skilled/experienced/qualified people onto the more complex stuff and charge considerably more.
My guess is that bike shops charge the same amount for any repairs or servicing they do, irrespective of how simple, because the same people do the work and they've calculated an hourly rate based on wages, overheads, profit, etc. As others have said, if you can't fix it yourself, then this is what you're gonna pay....