It seems that you work a lot with managers who have no clue what they are buying and why.
I mean, you're not wrong: buying enterprise software from Oracle or Microsoft or Salesforce is pure pain.
But nobody expects buying niche hardware from a tiny vendor to involve the usual 128 pre/post sale meetings and 256 hours of professional services.
Also, relevant VP buying these things usually do understand the difference between AMD and Nvidia stacks really well. Like, really-really well.