If you fully believe this, why are you even using a cloud provider? Why not buy your own hardware and set up your own server racks? Of course it's because you

If you fully believe this, why are you even using a cloud provider? Why not buy your own hardware and set up your own server racks? Of course it's because you agree on some level that DIY and "knowing how to use your tools and instead asking cloud providers to know how to do things for you" is simply not worth it. Companies who use these premium managed services are just setting the bar 1 level higher than you do. Even if these premium services end up costing $200K/year more than doing it yourself on commodity VMs, that's not even the salary of 1 FTE engineer at many companies. It's simply not worth the time and opportunity cost to care about those things if it's distracting engineers from working on the core product.