[caffeinated_me]

I've generally found something similar- lots of gotchas, but also some very useful products.

The best way I've found to approach it is to treat GCP as something that has to be evaluated at an individual service level. It's great if you're on one of their expected workflows/golden paths, and you can get lucky with a good fit if you aren't, but they seem to have a lot of unspoken assumptions and limits baked in that might or might not align with your use case.

Disclaimer: My use cases are pretty unusual from talking to our account rep, so this might be over-fitting to weird data.