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Gsuite for personal use is and has always been very very half baked. To answer your question. I pay for it too but I also ask myself the same question as to why I don't just move my domain to a simpler service that'll host an email.

But yes, the solution is definitely having a separate private gmail for those services.

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Happy to plug Fastmail as a happy customer!

Their spam filtering is trash. Every day I get 1-2 obvious scam/spam emails. On the worst days I get 5+. I’ve been a customer for a year and I mark the spam as such with discipline and it has never caught on to what is spam. I’m at my limit and seriously considering going back to Workspace.

That's wild, and a bit disappointing to hear. My spam protection has been top-notch. Perhaps because it's a custom domain with very little traffic. Also I mask everything with 1Password which has been nothing but good too.

I moved to Outlook with a Microsoft 365 subscription after I found out you could have a custom domain tied to your email (via GoDaddy only, but you can still do it with the right DNS entries) and then made my Google account a free Gmail account.

I got way too sick of getting features months, or even years later, than consumer Google accounts. I wish they would offer a paid tier for Google/Gmail accounts that would allow one custom domain for email.

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