Why is GCP a distance 3rd with cloud providers? They used to be second. They literally will throw tens of thousands of dollars of free development to get you to switch. Amazon may give some service credits if you're willing to switch an application over to them. EKS and GKE are on par with each other. So its not technology holding them back.
Honestly, it boggles my mind. Bad marketing seems to be the driving force here.
“Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM.”
If you've actually spent time building on their platform though, it feels like you're in some sort of inner circle of knowledge. The stuff works, and works really well.