Cutting costs has two parts

There are two parts to "cutting costs": severing something and changing the associated costs.

We often focus only on reducing costs and the severing something part is an after thought, only to find out later that those short-term gains actually have a lot of hidden costs that they hadn't accounted for.

Perhaps instead of taking the "easy" way, we might better ask ourselves how we could make better use of what we have now by putting in some effort. Otherwise, the change in costs may not be in the direction that you'd wished for.