Agreed.
Personally, I feel like Inktank was pretty close and when they were acquired by Red Hat, progress seemed to slow to a crawl.
I haven't run the last couple of versions. It could be much improved. Certainly bluestore is promising for performance.
These sound like... problems with Ceph.
Sane deployment, management, and troubleshooting are critical features of any distributed system.
If they’re not there the system isn’t “ready”.