Over the past serval months I realized with certainty that I should never use my personal Gmail account for any other Google services.
Gmail is Gmail only, for everything else create separate Google accounts you are not afraid to lose.
Gmail is Gmail only, for everything else create separate Google accounts you are not afraid to lose.
IIRC a company got their project booted from the play store, because one of the developers accounts got a black mark.
In any case, I am in the process of migrating off Gmail too, it just takes a lot of effort. But to your point, I should probably also download all my gmail data and archive it just in case.