Namely that "do it yourself at home" and "massive oligopolist" aren't the only two options. It's like saying "You can only have hamburgers two ways, cook them yourself or McDonalds."
I do the third and it's been great. I let my paid webhost handle it. (hostdime if you're interested, but I'm sure others do it well also)
and your comment seems to be saying it’s OK if we lose the ability to cook hamburgers at home, because there are other (more ethical) restaurants that aren’t McDonalds. am i misunderstanding?
also arguably it's too ineffective considering how hard it is to open a restaurant. (because instead of harassing random taco trucks we should focus on other preventative measures, better visibility of food safety, better reporting and tracking)
sure maybe it's time for a "Let's Email" (after letsencrypt) service that handles reputation for email senders.
we already have certificate transparency logs, OCSP, CAA records, and all the fancy stuff, what's needed is something similar.
There are more than a few out there. No offense but if you would have had dealt with spam, you would have known that already.
the wonder of letsencrypt is that it does have the backing of Google et al.
Another way to look at it: In what world are you more likely to be able to cook your own burger: One where it's literally just McDonalds who can now control how people talk about burgers, or one where there's also other restaurants as well.
I'm not necessarily saying your email has to go away and you HAVE to use hostdime. I'm saying the goal of McDonalds is to dominate and obsucre everything and anything that cuts into that is useful, especially third-parties like Hostdime. For someone like me that finds it too hard, but also finds gmail unacceptable this is a good (and should be obvious) solution.
How I explain this in real life:
"You'd be stupid to run a business off of gmail. When your phone or internet or electricity goes down, you can call a human and yell at them because you pay them. What happens for google? This is why I pay someone."