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My team's experience is the exact opposite - we're very happy with it, especially because it _doesn't_ obscure the k8s API and is quickly rebased on top of upstream.

It's been great for us since we were productive from day one without having to worry about setting up Kubernetes or figuring out things like deployments and builds. Their documentation is great and the Ansible installer is very helpful. They have a lot of operational docs, which are invaluable (day two ops guide, among others).

Apart from the obvious PaaS features, it has a lot of small and seemingly minor improvements like "oc rsync --watch" (copy changed files to a container) or "oc rsh dc/foobar", proper auditing, and a lot of other small stuff that makes life easier.

Red Hat is one the main k8s contributors and is responsible for the RBAC implementation, among others.

You did not mention any particular pain points, but I'd love to hear about them.