Status: IN
GCS lifecycle management creates an economics-complexity tension: storage class pricing strongly incentivizes automated transitions (no retrieval fees for Standard/Rapid, no rewrite on SetStorageClass, minimum durations creating cost penalties for wrong placement), but lifecycle rule evaluation has complex precedence (Delete beats SetStorageClass), timing (age 0 means midnight UTC, not creation time), and hold semantics (holds block deletion even when conditions match) that can produce unexpected results.