GCP has the best compute, storage, and networking of all the clouds. They are cheaper, faster, more scalable and more reliable than the others. Their managed services leave a lot to be desired (beta status, non-standard interfaces, and other limits) but if you're just looking to run VMs then that is the perfect fit for their cloud.

We consolidated everything on GKE now which lets use use VMs but still have the kubernetes control plane looking after things for us which has been great so far.