You may not be that far off from the truth. It took me a paid course (though, admittedly at a deep discount and for basically no money for a professional) to understand the purpose of the VPC section of the AWS control panel. And a while later, to understand why the items on the left-hand side are grouped in such a seemingly nonsensical way.

Now that I know this complexity, I can't unlearn it. But for everyone else, I would just recommend Digital Ocean, Scaleway or Hetzner.