Google's cloud console does this and it drives me mad. People will be explaining where to go to do something, and I look around madly... only to find out that

Google's cloud console does this and it drives me mad. People will be explaining where to go to do something, and I look around madly... only to find out that UI elements are hidden because I don't happen to have permissions. Knowing what access you need versus what you have is important, but just hiding stuff is not the right solution. There should be some explanatory text like "you need role foo.bar.baz to run this command". (To be fair to Google, they try to do things like showing what API call or gcloud command you would run to replicate the UI in your own program/script, which is very helpful of them. Every UI should do this. Some good ideas in there, some bad ideas in there.)