That's the biggest problem with GCP. Not these small projects (since they have multiple teams working on things and everything progresses in parallel) but the very big lack of managed services and polished features.

The underlying tech and building primitives are the best, so if you just need fast VMs with solid cpu/io/networking then it all works well. Unfortunately that's not enough to compete with AWS and Azure which have so many turnkey services that let you focus on more productive things.