Don't ever trust your business, hobby, important services to a company without a working customer support. Mistakes do happen, and when they happen, you need someone to react quickly.

Since I moved my custom domain mail hosting out of Google, I don't have to worry anymore. I finally put my Google password in a password manager, since I don't use it that often.

Nowadays, I would recommend using Google account only for a throwaway stuff, like setting up a new Android phone, E-Mail used for spam, etc, ... for anything real, thanks but no thanks.