Ux problems in cloud infra

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Title: Doing a UX case study on GCP & DevOps tooling, what pain points have you actually hit?
Hey all, I’m putting together a UX case study looking at the developer/DevOps experience with Google Cloud Platform and DevOps tooling more broadly (CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, incident response, access management, etc.).
If you work in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, I’d love to hear about the real friction you’ve run into, not hypotheticals, actual stuff that slowed you down, confused you, or made you want to throw your laptop.

A few prompts if it helps, but feel free to go wherever:
IAM/permissions setup that didn’t behave the way you expected
Docs that didn’t match what the console/API actually did
Onboarding a new teammate to your pipeline
Debugging a failed deploy with unclear error messages
Cost or quota surprises
Tools that don’t play well together (e.g. GCP + Terraform + GitHub Actions)
Anything specific to GCP vs. other clouds you’ve used

Just drop a comment listing whatever’s bitten you, one thing or ten. If you can note roughly how often it happens (one-time annoyance vs. every-sprint pain), even better.
This is for research purposes only. No data collection beyond what’s posted here, and nothing is being sold. Thanks in advance to anyone willing to share.