Agreed. I was moving my personal VPS from Linode earlier this year (after way too many security incidents from them). My first port of call was GCE, but in the end the UI just annoyed me. It took a while to wrap my head around and then was still confusing in various ways. I'm not going to write a tool to interact with an API for a once in a blue moon thing like "give me a server". I looked at AWS and Azure as well, and their consoles aren't much better (I think I preferred Azure's one, if anything)

In the end I went with Digital Ocean and had a server up and running in barely a few minutes, much quicker and easier.