There are some major issues with Global Sections that prevent proper dev/test/prod deployment.

1) When you make a change to the Global Section, the changes are instantly published when the changes are saved. There is no way to preview the changes before publishing, which is problematic when trying to implement a dev/test/prod deployment methodology.

2) Global Sections are not subject to versioning. Once you make a change, there is no version history for the prior state. Every version snapshot shows the latest version of the Global Section instead of showing the state at the time of the version timestamp. There is no way to restore a prior version of a web page, funnel, etc. if it has a Global Section.

These issues make having versions almost useless and do not allow for making changes and testing them before publishing to the public.

In the version history image below, the current version and Live version, etc. should have different footers, but they do not, and the Live version shows the current version footer even though it was not published yet.