well, can't really comment without URL but one thing I found majorly annoying is who sticky "noindex" has become. used to be that you could put your staging on

well, can't really comment without URL but one thing I found majorly annoying is who sticky "noindex" has become. used to be that you could put your staging on noindex, put it out there, do a lot of external testing tools (pages speed insights, mobile friendly tools, webpagetest.org, 10000 other tests that can easily be done on the open internet) and send the page around, and then on publishing day just remove the noindex, trigger recrawling and be indexed and visible in Google in no time. now it takes weeks to month for the noindex to vanish. even after google has crawled the pages again and again as visible in the logfiles, the pages stay noindex even though the information is long gone. google, the lazy monopoly strikes again.