In IBM Cloud, the product has been deprecated in favor of Kubernetes, which is a more complicated infrastructure to manage.

CF should be merged with the Kubernetes project. This could benefit both projects in areas of easy deployment and manageability. Cloud Foundry could include multizone support so it can be run in an enterprise production environment.

Another consideration is the typical "the chicken or the egg" problem. Should you run containers on top of Cloud Foundry, or should you have a Cloud Foundry container? If this is more clearly defined, a long life for Cloud Foundry can be secured.

I feel that IBM is still primarily for techies as far as the user interface is concerned. Since there are now guys coming from non-IT backgrounds, I feel that some improvement is needed compared to AWS, but more specially compared to Azure.

After the initial excitement period with Node-RED is over, you crave the need of additional integrations to third-party services.