Repair Questions for the group - 2007 Prius

Hi! I'd love the feedback of anyone on the following repairs recommendations the shop gave me today. I've had my 2007 Prius since 2011 so very familiar with its history. This shop was great on a repair last year but this time I received a text with a laundry list of expensive repairs and I had to call and ask them to walk me through each on of these items. I just get very leerily when a place recommends a long list of maintenance/repair items worth thousands of dollars and they didn't seem too thrilled in explaining to me what all of the items were like I was just going to drop $5000 in repairs on a whim. I told them I can only afford what is absolutely necessary to be done today. Which is true.

I took it to the shop because I went to get my state safety/emissions inspection and the inspector heard my car and said you have an exhaust leak so I drove it to the mechanic right after.

Exhaust leak where muffler and midpipe connect is what the mechanic has listed and basically saying all of the exhaust components(i didn't take a photo of the list but it was the muffler and like 5+ things need to be replaced - a $1300 repair. I had to agree to this because my safety and emission inspection is due before I can renew my car registration and don't have time to shop around. Is that normal for an exhaust leak? I can update with all of the things replaced when I get it.

Control arms - it says cracked bushings. They said within a year to take care of this.

Sway bar links leaking. No explanation for this one - I actually didn't see it on the repair quote - just on the findings after I got off the phone with them.

Also recommended a transmission fluid flush and some other break fluid flush.

I don't DIY anything on my except like windshield wipes and I'm going to handle the air filter.

Thank You for reading and your thoughts!