This is true for all of Amazon's products. They enshitified everything by being beholden to never-ending customer requests for more fine knobs. Their products have a serious "let's just bolt this on" vibe. There is no theme or reason to it.
AWS went from "just push a couple of buttons and you are running in the cloud without a dedicated sys admin" to "you are going to have to hire a team of cloud admins because no one understands all the options and costs anymore".
Compare AWS to DigitalOcean, for example - the difference in simplicity is mind-blowing.
There is a middle ground, however, between Amazon's "let's pile on more stuff until it's incomprehensible" and Google's "ah let's just kill the whole thing".
The latter will really get your customers torqued, the former is going to make some customers not get exactly what they want.
Maybe in the early days this would have made sense, but the cloud vendor lock in is so strong that I seriously doubt most customers even have the leverage. "Add this feature or we are walking to Linode"?
I don't think so. It just seems like a broken product design culture, where the managers need to add features non-stop, so they can make some slides and get their raises. Big company problems, to be sure, but still disfunctional.
AWS went from "just push a couple of buttons and you are running in the cloud without a dedicated sys admin" to "you are going to have to hire a team of cloud admins because no one understands all the options and costs anymore".
Compare AWS to DigitalOcean, for example - the difference in simplicity is mind-blowing.