firebase init fails at Firestore Setup for new project

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[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase-tools: 11.12.0

Platform: MacOS Monterey 12.6

[REQUIRED] Test case

Project creation from scratch

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

• Run firebase init in an empty folder
• Select feature: Firestore
• Firebase project: Create a new project

% firebase init

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You're about to initialize a Firebase project in this directory:

  /Users/myuser/supercoolstorage

? Which Firebase features do you want to set up for this directory? Press Space to select features, then Enter to confirm your choices. Firestore: Configure security rules and indexes files for Firestore

=== Project Setup

First, let's associate this project directory with a Firebase project.
You can create multiple project aliases by running firebase use --add, 
but for now we'll just set up a default project.

? Please select an option: Create a new project
i  If you want to create a project in a Google Cloud organization or folder, please use "firebase projects:create" instead, and return to this command when you've created the project.
? Please specify a unique project id (warning: cannot be modified afterward) [6-30 characters]:
 supercoolstorage
? What would you like to call your project? (defaults to your project ID) 
✔ Creating Google Cloud Platform project
✔ Adding Firebase resources to Google Cloud Platform project

🎉🎉🎉 Your Firebase project is ready! 🎉🎉🎉

Project information:
   - Project ID: supercoolstorage
   - Project Name: supercoolstorage

Firebase console is available at
https://console.firebase.google.com/project/supercoolstorage/overview
i  Using project supercoolstorage (supercoolstorage)

=== Firestore Setup

Error: It looks like you haven't used Cloud Firestore in this project before. Go to https://console.firebase.google.com/project/supercoolstorage/firestore to create your Cloud Firestore database.

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

• No error, creating the Firestore database should be part of the normal process, be it in the command line or in the web console.
• Please complete the Firebase initialization of my current folder (firebase.json, etc.) instead of crashing and letting me go to the web console to create a database, and then run firebase init again but this time selecting existing project.

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

Error "you haven't used Cloud Firestore in this project before"

Of course I haven't, this is a new project to be created, per the last question.

Process exits with code 1

The current folder is not initialized, zero files were created (no firebase.json, etc.)

The new project supercoolstorage seems to be created server-side, though.

[DerKO9]

I am also having this problem with version 11.16.0. I just made my project, initialized firestore database in the firebase console, and tried "firebase init" in VSCode.
Logging in with --no-localhost flag did not help

Here is the debug log. I replaced my project id with "XXX", the project does exist

=== Firestore Setup
[2022-11-10T01:34:59.523Z] >>> [apiv2][query] GET https://serviceusage.googleapis.com/v1/projects/XXX/services/firestore.googleapis.com [none]
[2022-11-10T01:34:59.524Z] >>> [apiv2][(partial)header] GET https://serviceusage.googleapis.com/v1/projects/XXX/services/firestore.googleapis.com x-goog-quota-user=projects/XXX
[2022-11-10T01:34:59.841Z] <<< [apiv2][status] GET https://serviceusage.googleapis.com/v1/projects/XXX/services/firestore.googleapis.com 200
[2022-11-10T01:34:59.841Z] <<< [apiv2][body] GET https://serviceusage.googleapis.com/v1/projects/XXX/services/firestore.googleapis.com [omitted]
[2022-11-10T01:34:59.841Z] >>> [apiv2][query] GET https://appengine.googleapis.com/v1/apps/XXX [none]
[2022-11-10T01:35:00.243Z] <<< [apiv2][status] GET https://appengine.googleapis.com/v1/apps/XXX 404
[2022-11-10T01:35:00.243Z] <<< [apiv2][body] GET https://appengine.googleapis.com/v1/apps/XXX {"error":{"code":404,"message":"App does not exist.","status":"NOT_FOUND"}}
[2022-11-10T01:35:00.244Z] error getting database typeHTTP Error: 404, App does not exist. {"name":"FirebaseError","children":[],"context":{"body":{"error":{"code":404,"message":"App does not exist.","status":"NOT_FOUND"}},"response":{"statusCode":404}},"exit":1,"message":"HTTP Error: 404, App does not exist.","status":404}
[2022-11-10T01:35:00.244Z] database_type: undefined

Error: It looks like you haven't used Cloud Firestore in this project before. Go to https://console.firebase.google.com/project/XXX/firestore to create your Cloud Firestore database.

EDIT: It looks like appengine is returning a 404 because Firebase did not initialize an app when I created the project. In the Google Cloud console, I had to manually initialize the app which is something I never had to do before