I have had the same experience. I was constantly bumping into unexpected limitations. Moving to CH felt like the opposite, with many more ”Wow, I didn’t expect this to be possible but it is” experiences.

There is a place for BQ but it is good to set expectations correctly and also look at the constraints. They are sometimes not obvious. The docs do helpfully outline the limitations, for example:

- Materialized views: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/materialized-views-in... - Indexes: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/search-intro#limitati...