I've been so excited for experimenting with EKS ever since the announcement but this offering looks very underwhelming.
With kops [0] I can spin up a production cluster on AWS quickly and have just as much functionality (if not more control) without paying Amazon ~$150/mo for the pleasure (per cluster!). It doesn't really seem to be "managed" either.
Maybe now's the time to really start to look at GCP/GKE. I've used them for some GitLab CI stuff in the past but never invested too much time into really seeing how the transition from AWS to GCP is.