[asciimike]

When I was doing deprecations on GCP, it was minimum 12 months for any deprecation. Five seems shockingly fast!

As for the beta thing: GCP's definition of beta was basically everyone else's definition of GA, since the GA requirements were so insane (e.g. 99.999% internal availability) that getting there would take literal years (see the GCF beta to GA taking like 18 months?). I totally agree that it's weird that things would stay in beta for so long, as opposed to hitting industry standard levels so users can have confidence in them, but setting GA as far higher than the industry was part of Google Cloud's plan.

[bushbaba]

I can vouch that’s not a true statement. The deprecation policy doesn’t cover breaking api changes. Forced k8s version upgrades.

Among other edge cases that caused pain.