Staging hides bugs. Staging tends to be manually altered in ways that CD doesn't do. Staging for testing means likely collisions. Not to mention cleanup so that the environment can continue to be used.
Favor ephemeral environments instead. Need to demo? Spin one up. Need to do some end-to-end exploring? Spin one up.
Spot a problem in an ephemeral environment? Keep it up so someone can investigate.
All done with it? Spin it down.
Can't do that because of all your special snowflake infra code? Well, that's a problem waiting to happen anyway. Fix it so that you can spin up ephemeral environments.
Staging hides bugs. Staging tends to be manually altered in ways that CD doesn't do. Staging for testing means likely collisions. Not to mention cleanup so that the environment can continue to be used.
Favor ephemeral environments instead. Need to demo? Spin one up. Need to do some end-to-end exploring? Spin one up.
Spot a problem in an ephemeral environment? Keep it up so someone can investigate.
All done with it? Spin it down.
Can't do that because of all your special snowflake infra code? Well, that's a problem waiting to happen anyway. Fix it so that you can spin up ephemeral environments.