Is AWS cost optimization just intentionally confusing and perpetual?

Why the hell is AWS cost optimization still such a manual mess ?Worked at VMware vRealize on fullstack and saw infra guys constantly dealing with cost shit manually. Now I’m at a startup doing infra myself and it’s the same thing just endless scripts spreadsheets and checking bills like accountants. AWS has Cost Explorer Trusted Advisor all this crap but none of it actually fixes anything. Half the time it’s just vague charts or useless recommendations that don’t even apply

Feels like every company big or small just accepts this as normal like yeah let's just waste engineering time cleaning up zombie resources and overprovisioned RDS clusters manually forever. How is this still a thing in 2025 Am I crazy or is this actually just AWS milking the confusion?

i only have like 3 yoe so is there something i am not understanding and there is no way for this to imprve? we are actually behind on our roadmap since another project came in to reduce cost on eks now directly from the CTO, its never ending