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I'm with you, including NC customership and excluding a want of registrars to provide even DNS, let alone mail and hosting.

That said, GoDaddy makes about half of it's annual revenue from it's 'core' business (domain name sales) over again in 'apps and commerce' (stuff you and I don't, but clearly many other less enlightened people want).

The 'A&C' segment grew 13% in 2023 as opposed to 2% of core business.

It's also better to decouple one's email and hosting from the domain registrar, in terms of risk clustering.

I don't think it has to be an either/or thing, solong as a registrar isn't employing all sorts of dark patterns and ruining UX for the sake of upsell opportunities.

Why not use something like Cloudflare for DNS? You'll never have to deal with the registrar again after setting name servers.

CF has such a limited TLD selection. I know it's growing all the time, but sites like namecheap seemingly support every TLD as soon as it comes out.