This[0] might be of interest for you then, they basically handle the European localized-VAT compliance for you and it should be as simple to integrate as, say, stripe payments. It looks promising, I plan to use it, but have no experience with it yet.

As for the idea that VAT MOSS is what keeps google cloud from entering the private market, I agree that it's improbable given Google's size, they have figured it out already for other products after all.

0: https://quaderno.io/