GCP requiring sales team approval now for basic quota

I've been using GCP for easily a decade now, since it was just App Engine Python 2.5.

I created a new billing account for a new open source project / company, and lo and behold, to access anything more than basic CPUs and quotas, you need to call sales.

Sales doesn't care about small fish, of course, because they are probably paid on commission; the person on the other end of the phone wanted to know our "company name" and "what we were using the CPUs for" (it's an open source project, we are compiling code, not sure what else to say).

After being a GCP loyalist for as long as I have, I'm sad to see this condition. Has anyone else experienced this? Can anyone else share tips about how best to gain quota / access to resources, when you are willing to pay? Yes, I'm already opening an AWS account, but it will take time to learn the equivalent systems in other clouds.