Yep, the auto-generated stuff is a nightmare to understand. I've found it hard even switching from the old monolith architecture to the new Cloudformation stuff. But maybe I'm just stupid
No, I believe the cloud stuff has evolved in a way that is just strange. I know I'm not stupid, and I look at this stuff with suspicion. This is why I'm going vertical by owning my entire stack (except Amazon S3 because it is awesome...)
I wish it was cheaper, but I can leverage it well.
Nobody would design it like that from scratch but having only already existing stuff to build on makes the end result more complex that the problem it solves requires