At my org we have some legacy software that uses the google analytics api. As you may be aware, that api has been discontinued for some reason. This application is going to nearly impossible to port to the new api.
There is no way to bring back the old api so we are looking at a few weeks of parcial downtime. I only took me a few weeks to figure that out.
Google cloud console is one of the most confusing websites I have ever seen. Each function is a separate page that has 300 menus and drop downs that take you to seperate pages. You want to see api permissions? Api permission manager. You want to see analytics? Analytics manager. You want to turn on a new api? Separate page.
Why!
About 10 years ago I had just started at a company that had previously made Flash widgets (weather/sports/stocks) to put on your site. They had pivoted to JavaScript tools about three years before I joined the company, and had discontinued their Flash support a year earlier.
The very first conference call I had with a potential customer was actually someone who claimed to be losing billions of dollars because our Flash widgets didn’t work anymore. They were livid that we’d stopped supporting them, and threatened to sue us if we didn’t turn it back on.
The poor sales rep and I didn’t know what to say, because she had started about a week before me and didn’t even know we made them. I’m guessing they didn’t sue because we never heard about it again.
tl;dr - Users are idiots.