I had the same experience. Plus you never know what's the best way to use eg. Nano Banana -- it works better in AI Studio versus their regular Gemini chat.
They didn't describe Italy as Eastern Europe, they said you can hire in Eastern Europe for far less. Eg. you can do that from Italy and keep people in the same timezone and relatively close by.
This is something I would definitely use, as my company pays for v0 today for these exact purposes (product design/PM).
I've tried some of the same prompts I've done on v0 but didn't notice a lot of difference -- needs a lot of back-and-forth, as with v0. So not sure what would make me switch at this point.
Could one usecase be generating an audiobook with this from existing books? I wonder if I could fine-tune the "characters" that speak these lines since you said it's a single pass whole the whole convo. Wonder if that's a limitation for this kind of a usecase (where speed is not imperative).