Well, not exactly, since GDrive just moves the files to the Trash, it doesn't delete them immediately. The user had to manually purge the Trash after moving the files.

That said, they're both brain-dead UIs, yes.

iCloud only moves to the trash too, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9888496

No, when Google does it, that's the whole point of cloud storage. When apple does it, that's proof they don't understand services.