AWS API Gateway and the Self-Serve Onboarding It Refuses to Offer

I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company tells me they are all in on AI, that agents are the future, that machines will soon be doing the integration work humans used to do by hand. And then I go to actually wire something up and I am asked to log into a console, click through five screens, and prove I am a human being before I can get a single credential.