Feeding has been so expensive

Wish someone would have warned me how EXPENSIVE feeding is, I’m so fed up. First I breastfed, got sore nipples so had to buy nipple shields, nipple cream and breast pads. Fine. Then he wouldn’t wean off the shields but I was producing a lot, so I had to buy a pump. Cool. Most mums have one. And also a bunch of expensive bottles I might add. Oh and a steriliser because apparently they’re so much more efficient. Then my pump wasn’t doing the job properly (lost its efficiency) and I couldn’t keep up with baby’s cluster feeding, so had to buy infant feed to top up. Kept that up for a while but it became too expensive, so had to move on to powdered formula, oh but it takes an hour to make, so ofc it’s much easier to buy a formula prep machine! Buy wait, now I need cold sterilising pods because steam sterilisation won’t get the job done apparently. Honestly, I am just exhausted of running around having to buy things that keep causing issues later on down the line. I feel like I’m being sold temporary fixes for everything and they all end up being crap and causing me more stress because I have to learn how everything works all over again. I really regret my entire feeding journey and wish I would have persevered with feeding my LO boob. This entire process has made me absolutely miserable.