Comment by sixhobbits

This is nice that you know about the issue and are working on it. I really appreciate all the new "Get api key" buttons across google ai products that already makes it much easier than setting up a cloud project and getting credentials json files.

But I do think it's a general problem with Google products that the solution is always to build a new one. There are already like 8 ways to use and pay for Google AI and that adds to the complexity of getting set up, so adding a new simpler better option might make that all worse instead of better