Parts of this sounds similar to what happened to my (small company) job.

We signed up for a small 20 or 40K design project. Landing page and pricing page. In the weekly meetings, the designer would present all this out of scope work to us. "Heres the new blog design" Is this a thing they do on purpose?

Can we have the fonts and logos please?

And yes, all the people doing the actual work were green and/or overseas contractors