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I hear where you are coming from, but I think your criticisms are misdirected. For the majority of businesses, using an infrastructure provider is a sensible decision that leads to greater security and stability in the long run for less money than trying to build the same thing on their own. This isn't a decision made out of stubbornness, laziness, or ignorance about IT. It's simply that it's the better option for each individual business.
But when most companies make the decision to use an infrastructure provider, outages and risks are centralized. As you pointed out, the services you rely on are likely to use a provider even if you don't use one, so this isn't a problem that a business can solve by buying a server and hiring an IT team. These massive failures aren't a sign that businesses need to make different decisions. It's a sign that the infrastructure providers must work harder and spend more money to improve their internal isolation.
When a bridge collapses because the pedestrians happen to walk in step with the resonant frequency of the bridge, we don't blame the pedestrians for walking incorrectly or for deciding to take the bridge instead of a boat. We blame the designer of the bridge for failing to account for the mundane stresses that the bridge is expected to sustain.