Single partition only. Poorly named, sure. Feature-wise though pretty comparable to peer offerings. Fortunately general purpose transactions are coming next year.

> material views. Added, removed, readded, deprecated.

No; added, then marked experimental. Never removed or deprecated, though they may be superseded before long.

> error handling is asinine

Fundamental distributed systems problem that is just more apparent with eventual consistency. Failure does not have a certain outcome.