A major downside of any service once it becomes too large is that the overall complexity introduces lower reliability. From Google's perspective perhaps each rule and feature makes sense, but from a customer perspective, there might be too much risk of who-knows-what issues coming up. I don't think this is limited to Google. I miss the older, less complicated versions of most bigtech services; Facebook, Instagram, Google, Amazon, etc. Even looking at Vercel's project settings the other day I found myself thinking "hmm this is getting a bit unwieldy."

Also beware of having the owner for your Google Workspace be that of an employee who no longer works there. I was never able to fulfill all the "requirements" of Google support to get the Workspace back, despite the fact that it was linked to our domain... and we couldn't register a new Google Workspace to that domain. Ok, Google, I guess we just won't use your products, and we lose access to all our mail and files?

For YEARS I have been "screaming at the sky" (pun somewhat intended) about, what later became know as, cloud services. Family, friends, and coworkers would laugh at my resistance to use Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. storage. Would tell me that I do not need a µSD card slot for my phone because these wonderful "free" services existed. Would mock me for continuing to purchase DVDs and CDs. I remember when Apple told me my @mac.com email address would be free forever. I feel that, as of late, I am being vindicated somewhat. With stories like this increasing. Stories of services eliminating the movies, games, music, books, storage they promised you would be around "forever", celebrities nude photos being hacked and put out there for everybody to see. Neither the cloud, and DEFINITELY not big business, is your friend at all. To them, you are just dollar signs until you aren't.

No people to interact with. Only AI and automated systems. Engineers/PMs/leaders/etc are incentivized to develop something new (more bonus, RSU, promotions) and move on. Nobody gets rewarded to improve things already developed.

The Great Decoupling of Labor and Capital: https://www.mbi-deepdives.com/the-great-decoupling-of-labor-... explains this with numbers: Alphabet required 76k employees to get to their first $100 Billion. Their most recent incremental $100 Billion? Just 11,000! (assuming they add another 3k employees in 4Q’25)

I submitted my app to App Store Connect for Apple and Google Play Store. After a few reviews on Apple my app was approved after a week or so. On Google, I got a couple rejections. I addressed the concerns resubmitted. Got another rejection without much detail, but changed a couple things and submitted again. App suspended... without any explanation why.

Not related to this particular reason for suspension, but I had a friend who's GCP account got put on pause a few weeks into his project because his payment method was flagged for suspicious behavior. This friend had an incident of stolen identity in the past 24 months which caused a lot of issues and basically any CC linked to him seemed to be problematic for GCP. Swapped CC linked to the account to his business partner and fixed everything.

Lesson: if you use a CC with GCP or cloud services, firewall it from everything else you do to be safe.

To me it sounds like you're a weird business model for GCP and you keep being hit by tooling designed to block bad use cases that come across this uncommon use case.

That might just be me though.

You're going to look like an attacker to google for almost any model of review of access. You're in a niche role which would demand they build systems to take account of you. I can understand why a monolith has back pressure towards that cost and consequence.

Sucks.

There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee...

About once a year some server provider kicks me out, burns down, or extorts/hikes prices on me specifically. All data is already mirrored to servers at other providers, so I just need to spin up the main infra somewhere else. I can do this in seconds on anything that accepts ssh connections. The slowest step is waiting a few minutes for DNS to propagate.

If you're at the mercy of a single company that probably couldn't care less about the minuscule amount of revenue you represent, your operation has a problem and I have no respect for what you do.