I appreciate your reply and I believe every word you have said. Thank you for the hard work and thought you and your team have put into your products, and I'm sorry to hear if anyone is casting you as faceless corporate politicians reaching for meaningless goals. I know exactly how that feels.

To be frank with my feedback, I am a person who uses Firebase for a side project. I don't have the mental capacity to watch an ~hour talk for each piece of GCP infra I don't understand. I liked Firebase because I could understand it intuitively through its UX.

I'm sure the GCP features are very helpful and innovative and I'd get a great ROI from the talk if I worked on them for my full-time job. But some weeks, an hour is all I have. I'm an app developer and I would just like to deploy my app please, and have the rest fade into the background, or at least integrate with my existing workflows.

Thanks for all your hard work. I understand if "side project developers" is not the top of your funnel. But I hope you hear my feedback.