Google is a wholly political organization now, everything can be explained by internal power plays. Don’t look for another source of logic.
Changing the definitions of "GA" and "Beta" etc in the context of GCP is a pretty big deal, and I am guessing some product manager, and others, are playing this game to to be able to claim that they launched this to "GA" for Promo/OKRs/etc.
Now let's see if they have anything to say about their deprecation policy...
I literally had projects blocked because I didn’t provide a promo vision for the Directors to make VP if they funded me. This is business critical shit, my direct supervisor literally told me this. They were angry I didn’t devote any time to showing the promo opportunities. No complaint with any part of my justification beyond that.
Business case was open and shut, low technical requirements, minimal overhead and low cost. All they wanted to know was how to make VP, that’s it.
So yeah, I quit.
(Also to the down-voters who likely work at Google, if you’re not in the room when decisions are made you don’t know how the company works.)
Is great and true, thank you.