I'm a consultant also, and more than a few times I've advised the customer not to overcomplicate things. I can only "afford" to do this because I'm already over-worked and not in need of additional projects. Some other consultants in those meetings looked at me like I had grown a second head that started speaking in Klingon.

There will always be lots of advice and action simplify this or that. That does not change the aggregate outcome. It's not a never-decreasing number and it's chaotic messy life.

I had a doctor trying to make me pay less and come less. I had many more trying to sell me useless garbage, from network marketing vegetable juice to magnetic mats, after they did not find an obvious disease and concluded "it's in my head" (I'm fine now, reason was eventually found at a university clinic and solved for good).

As I already mentioned in my post, to actively market things you need to make money. The teams making he most money are able to do the most marketing and the most sales. Those pointing to free solutions are unable to hire sales people. There is no pharma company that can sell unpatentable already easily available substances, or only with minor improvements for packaging it more conveniently or in a cleaner form, the ones making billons can run lots of ads and sende out sales reps and give gifts and benefits to those making purchase decisions.

Web forum and word of mouth compete with large companies with dedicated and very sophisticated marketing and sales organizations for reach and ability to convince, and you can only make contracts with the latter.

The forces out there don't prevent you from "doing the right thing", they just slightly, or maybe not so slightly, favors those wo don't.

The chemical company that finds their product does not really help much and potentially has very severe environmental effects is much more likely to go out of business or to be bought than the ones lying about it and increasing the marketing budged and sales effort (see tobacco, oil companies and climate change research, etc.) .

"Let's do nothing instead of this" is highly disfavored by our system - and by our mindset. The people now found responsible for making and selling products and substances they already know are bad, if they were out of work, society would shun them and "paying them to do nothing" (even if it would be much better) is frowned upon by most of society. Everybody is forced to do something, anything. On the other hand, it's actually quite hard with all the basics long taken care of - for those who can pay. Or, the problems are so intricate it's hard to impossibel to solve in a private initiative, often even for billionaires, who too have to chose their battles. So we end up with lots of cheaters and people selling products, substances, services with little to no regard for consequences. They may be bad people, but our system creates a lot of pressure on everyone and people react.