Hey,
IMHO creating a service would be more useful if you want to encapsulate (reuse) functionality in a single class, like the one in your udemy course. Creating a helper would be only one single function doing one thing. You could create 3-4 helper functions for that one single service you posted, but that would decouple things that basically belong together.
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