I agree with you on most points, but want to point out that this has already been discussed quite a bit with the Google Cloud SDK developers.
To read up on (and join) the discussion I recommend to read comment #27 in the following bug report, and the forum discussion mentioned a few comments later. https://code.google.com/p/google-cloud-sdk/issues/detail?id=163#c27 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/7cb3c823-a7d4-4653-aded-5f6bd4a21a80%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
