for saavy users, there is the question of trust to. Google owns too much of my life already that losing my personal gmail would be debilitating for my daily operations.
I suppose it's a tradeoff. I can accept the small risk of a huge inconvenience (if my Google account were shut down) in exchange for the daily usefulness of Gcal, mail, docs, etc. I wish they'd just move to a paid plan.
It was in that moment that I decided the risk was unacceptable and that I’d switch to my own domain for all emails. It’d just be so devastating losing access to my email.