Well, the regression might end up being good timing for users, since Google has also recently announced plans to take away the legacy Gmail custom domain names. This adds up to opening the door for competitors.

Good riddance, big-G can't seem to stop fucking themselves over with regard to user trust at this point. It must truly be a royal mess on the inside, because the growing cracks are very publicly visible.

Edit: It looks like today they announced the reversal of their stupid plan to take away the legacy g-suites? https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/28/google-will-let-legacy-g-s...

Shrug, all the back-and-forth still signals a huge cluster bomb on the inside. Everyone just wants promo.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30114343

It's sad to see what the benevolent mission of "help the world organize it's data" has devolved into. Instead of growing into something pretty, it's becoming more and more petty- nickel and diming us to the max, even when they're already making boatloads of money.

There is no end to The Greed.

The whole reason GMail gained public traction was because of its advanced spam filtering. Storage was good, but secondary.

Now that everyone is locked in, the anti-spam efforts can be pared back, since nobody gets promoted in Google for doing their job well. Only for inventing a new job to do.

I even got emails from Apple (iTunes store receipts) and similar high profile senders going to spam, while some super obvious spam emails get through.