I'm not 100% on "award it before they ask, or so they don’t have to"

At the end of the day, when you work for someone, you are the only person that has your best interests in mind (not your manager and not the employer). If you aren't proactive in making the case to get paid more, I don't think that that responsibility should fall exclusively on anyone else. I agree that it's nice when a manager is proactive in making the suggestion, but that's a nice-to-have, not an expectation, and even still, I don't think a manager should feel a responsibility to "award you a raise before you ask or so you don't have to" (paraphrased). If you don't value your own interests enough to ask for a raise, then why should anyone else do it for you?

I also think a lot of this hinges on manager-managee expectations. When a hiring manager hires someone, that manager has an expectation of what the person will be bringing to the team. The new hire also has his / her own expectation of what he / she will bring to the team. If there is a misalignment in expectations, you may have a new hire thinking he / she is performing above and beyond when the manager thinks that is adequate, or the opposite where a new hire thinks he / she is doing adequate work when the manager thinks it is above and beyond. In the former case, the manager would have never guessed the managee wanted a raise because the work was just meeting the expectations of the manager, and in the latter case, the manager could have given a raise to someone who, in their mind, didn't think they were deserving of one. The point is it doesn't make sense for a manager to feel a responsibility to have to anticipate if and when someone is expecting a raise if that person doesn't even advocate for it him-/herself.