Cloud Run is great if you just need to deploy a few services and expose their endpoints, and don't have a particularly complex backend service architecture.

But with more complex architectures, you'll end up implementing a sort of GKE-like layer over Cloud Run, at which point GKE would probably make more sense.

GKE lets you shell into containers, run all different kinds of workloads (e.g. no need for a separate "Cloud Tasks" system), supports stateful workloads, provides a standardized language for defining and deploying resources of all kinds (the k8s resource definition language), and as such integrates with standard gitops deployment systems such as ArgoCD.

My understanding is that Cloud Run is not suitable for stateful workloads (databases, etc.)