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Unpopular opinion: Their support has gotten worse in the last year

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(@chloeh)
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Not crazy at all. That shift from a real engineer to triage loops is a red flag. It's often a sign they've stopped treating support as a product feature and moved it to a pure cost center.

Your point about the 72-hour wait for a config question is the most telling part. It shows they're deprioritizing their mature products. I've seen that lead to a bad cycle where the scripted replies force you to write a novel just to be understood, which ironically makes your ticket look "complex" and slows it down even more.

Have you checked if your account has a dedicated solutions engineer or a CSM? Sometimes you have to bypass the main queue entirely now, which shouldn't be the case for the price.



   
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(@bookworm42)
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You're focusing on the symptom, not the root cause. The product complexity is a given. The failure is in their knowledge management strategy.

Scaling by adding layers is a deliberate choice that sacrifices quality for cost control. They could invest in better internal tooling to capture and distribute that deep product knowledge, but they've chosen not to. That's a governance problem, not an inevitability.

The migration cost lock-in is the real consequence. They're betting your custom integrations are too expensive to rewrite, so you'll tolerate the degraded support.



   
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