for what? managed postgres and some ml training tools?
Simple as that, it's consulting Heaven. Much like SAS and SAP. Everybody happy. Now to be far to databricks, if used properly and ignore the cost, it does actually function pretty well. Compared to Synapse, PowerBI Tabular, Fabric, Azure ML, ... that's already a big big big step forward.
If you're buying from microsoft, it won't be cheap either way, might as well treat yourself a little bit.