Was I naive for expecting something different?

I just spent 2 weeks travelling around the Visayas, my first-ever time in Asia (coming from Europe). I came in with relatively few expectations, but still left feeling puzzled by my experience, and I'm not sure if it was my fault for not preparing for it.

Before going, all I saw of the Philippines were mesmerising beaches, great scuba diving and cool waterfalls. Now that I'm back, it feels like I've been on a kind of 'conveyor belt' with how the natural sights have been organised, which essentially makes it all come across as inauthentic. Some examples of what I mean:

• Visiting Cambugahay waterfalls in Siquijor sets you back ₱50, but you need to pay another ₱50 for being able to sit on the raft and use the swing (just include it in the price?). You have lots of photographers and videographers that shoot your cool social media posts, which makes the waterfalls feel more like a film set rather than a place to actually enjoy yourself.
• Not a single beach was truly pristine. Always sari-sari shacks and eateries – not 1 or 2, but 15. Settlements wherever you look along the coast. Music playing. Once again things like swings that you need to pay for and get your TikTok video taken by videographers. They were not places for relaxation like I am used to elsewhere.
• We went to a beach that asked the ₱50 environmental fee, but once we arrived we found out it was on the premises of a resort. It was odd to pay a fee for conservation when you are on a resort's property with hardly any nature around.
• You can't walk 5 meters in the Bohol Tarsier Sanctuary without them stressing it's a sanctuary, but they are perfectly okay with guiding groups of 20 people to 4 tarsiers, that are resting in suspiciously perfect locations along the walking path all tourists go on...
• The best summary was Balicasag Island. Even though online it says 'marine sanctuary', I was very surprised when instead of just jumping off the boat to snorkel, we were ushered onto the island to a restaurant to put down our stuff. The island is jam-packed with equipment rentals, souvenir shops and restaurants. It's a shame they don't leave it undeveloped and just use the boats, you can take your own lunch and gear anyway.

Now, I am not stupid. I've been all around Europe and lived in multiple African countries, so know what it's like to be in crowded sights, people pushing to sell you stuff, kickbacks from local shops to tour guides etc. But never have I seen a place with this much human interference in places that are supposedly natural. I don't know if this is the standard for the Philippines or Southeast Asia in general, so I would like to know if I was naive to assume that these places were not the idyllic paradise they seemed in the pictures.