My firm is all-in Microsoft and I have to say it's not working. Power BI licenses are limited, Azure cloud cost are through the roof, anything you'd have run on

My firm is all-in Microsoft and I have to say it's not working. Power BI licenses are limited, Azure cloud cost are through the roof, anything you'd have run on a proper workstation in the old days is retired 'since we have cloud' (as are tools like SAS, MATLAB and other end user modelling languages). As a non-developer but technically inclined person I've tried to find courses in non-obvious MS-software but couldn't find anything worthwhile. The pushback I receive for suggesting R or Python for modellong, stitching and automation is intense even though all juniors learn these tools in university. Microsoft lock-in is just crippling.