Except for faking death, I didn't have to do it.
Instead, we have this thing called PhD thesis defence, where 3 older adepts travel with you into the land of death. Nothing fake about that, just ritual. Then you are free to join the guild or do the hut thing.
You are free to do the hut thing anytime anyway, witches are free people. And alchemy clearly demonstrates that this guy/girl thing is a nonsense.
Haggling is discrimination against us on spectrum. Money are thing of consensus, last straw of our polarized society. It takes way more effort for me to haggle than for you, so if I have to haggle with you, my value goes up a lot immediately.
See? It's a language game you are trying to define. You normies are silly, there is no definition for those. We, however, could hyperfocus on this and beat the shit out of you, so you'd better stop trying and accept my offer now before it is too late. Or just fund my work unconditionally, it's the best use of money around anyway.