The products that Google does offer are technically superior to their equivalent products at AWS.

AWS has a much bigger breadth of offerings, and I 100% agree with you that it would be malpractice to recommend GCP over AWS, for myriad reasons.

But by mentioning Lambda layers, for example, you're not making an oranges to oranges comparison.

For the actual functions offering, for example, the Google one is cheaper, has more consistent network access to the data stores, and starts up faster. Technically superior in every way.

But I would never use GCP's serverless offering unless I had to.