The people who buy the tools only consider cost and feature lists (or maybe Google Analytics is really useful for them personally, everyone else be damned). The people who make the tools only consider their dev partners and the people buying the tools.
Users, like you and me, are not considered anywhere along the way. As a result, all of our job descriptions now including managing this ever changing infrastructure of red tape on top of everything else we've got to do. A little bit of this is OK and expected, but it sounds you're dealing with more than a little bit of it all at once, to the point where it's not sustainable.
If we're in that position, it's up to us to have the confidence to say to our manager, "OK, I can do this, but it's going to take (this much) longer because I have to deal with this other stuff now, too."
Users, like you and me, are not considered anywhere along the way. As a result, all of our job descriptions now including managing this ever changing infrastructure of red tape on top of everything else we've got to do. A little bit of this is OK and expected, but it sounds you're dealing with more than a little bit of it all at once, to the point where it's not sustainable.
If we're in that position, it's up to us to have the confidence to say to our manager, "OK, I can do this, but it's going to take (this much) longer because I have to deal with this other stuff now, too."