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> I highly recommend it (and a personal Google Workspace account)

I can't recommend against this enough, and I work at Google. Workspace accounts don't work with so many services. At least YouTube TV, Nest cameras, Google Home sharing, Google Play family accounts, Android parental controls, and Opinion Rewards are broken in my experience, probably a lot more.

It's a shame, especially for people who've had a Workspace account for many years, and have a bunch of email, documents, and media tied up in it.

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I wish Google would let us convert a personal Workspace account to a regular Gmail account.

I do to. Importantly, they need to let you merge a workspace account into the existing Gmail account you had to set up to use some services.

The cause of this is that Workspace accounts have a different ToS so they cannot simply convert one user type to another.

I don't see why not, if you're agreeing to both ToS and to the conditions of the migration. Most people who have these problems are either the maintainer of the Workspace domain or family members. It wouldn't be a problem to get additional sign offs.

I know a little more about the situation, but can't really comment on it here.

It works great for me. I recommend it. I’m not sure what working at Google has to do with recommending or not.

I don’t use any of the non-core services because I expect them to be killed off soon anyway. For contacts, email, docs, and drive it works great. YouTube as well.

I have a “regular” Gmail account in case I need to use any niche services that don’t work with my Workspace account.

Overall the trade off is well worth it.

I use YouTube TV with mine and that works fine, but I do agree with the general sentiment. Many, many things are unsupported or broken.

Right up until you want to share that YouTubeTV subscription with a family member via their "Family Sharing" feature. This is not supported and their support directs you to cancel your subscription and establish a new one using a regular gmail account.

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