You Can't Build a Palace on a Broken Base ---My honest reaction to Google Cloud NEXT '26 — from a loyalist

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge The Problem with Gemini The discussion, the demos, the announcements at Google Cloud NEXT '26 were out of this world. I listened. I was genuinely excited. Then I decided to put it to the test. I copied the two keynote transcripts and asked my Gemini Pro how to use the new features. Gemini proudly declared: "I am the platform. I have all these integrated. All you have to do is ask." So I shot. And I found skeletons. As we chatted, t