How onerous, a security mechanism you actively turned on actually requiring you to do something. My car is just as bad - I drove it at a wall, and the front bit crumpled up!
And if you're getting your phone out twice a day, then perhaps your work hours are a bit crazy (12 hours+) and the problem is less to do with AWS than your workplace?
And as someone who works at home, I work whenever the hell I want, get off my back and go troll elsewhere.
Call me crazy, but that seems like a totally different feature than what AWS two-factor auth is doing. AWS uses 2FA to validate users, while Google uses it to validate devices, and you're making it seem like Amazon is too dumb to use local storage for something.
(Also, I don't think the parent commenter was comparing Google to a car crash. The analogy was that it seems weird to get mad about features performing their stated actions.)
If you're that sensitive about lighthearted hyperbole, then perhaps you shouldn't use it in the first place.