EKS came later and for a long time was basically barely working. Better now but still has odd things like no free tier. The problem is that GCP for some reason

EKS came later and for a long time was basically barely working. Better now but still has odd things like no free tier. The problem is that GCP for some reason just doesn't align with many corporate customer requirements (ie: support, stability, never kill anything, available resources, etc.) and an engineer friendly product (GKS) does nothing to alleviate that. It makes GCP better in an area it was already better in and doesn't at all fix the tangential reason companies actually avoid it (or rather from what I hear either migrate off of GCP eventually or use it as just a secondary cloud provider).