Has anyone had problems with hairstylists not doing your hair the way you wanted it to be?

I had gone over the past two years on a roller coaster ride of hair colors to treat successfully incoming grey hair.
I had hairstylists ( gone to a few) whom dissuade me by using technical terms as to why I can’t get a total hair color etc
I got streaks from light to medium to all three of which of course grew out and had to be fixed each month!
Costs mounted per month for this and it did not matter which Salon I went to as the same results of repeated visits to fix.
After two years and many different processes done that washed out after couple of months I finally purchased a twenty dollar kit and did it myself! It was successful and stayed in now for three months so far. I learned later that these hairstylists only placed a temporary color in my hair and thus every month it was guaranteed that I would come back and pay them again to redo it.
I now only have to purchase a retouch kit for less that the $104 per month that I paid in the past not only for hair color but add on also the products that I needed to condition my over processed hair!Has this happened to you?