Thanks for the comment -- I think (although I honestly don't know for certain) that the goal is for the names to convey something about what the service does. In particular, so that in the context of the catalog the general purposes of the various services are at least _somewhat_ obvious.

The docs are always a work in progress -- anything you can recall trying to do with GCP that was particularly inscrutable (can't fix everything in one go, but one fix at a time is better than nothing :)