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You're saying Google made a change that hurts SEO? Isn't that what they're supposed to be doing?

Sadly. I also liked this option. I wonder how much it will affect people dealing with SEO.

It's very frustrating that they gated this feature. It's probably going to be great for more focused targeting (they can see exactly who wants to add what keywords to their web page). but as the OP states, there is about 1/2 of the features in this new version AND you need to sign up for AdWords.

It's irritating for losing query volume, but it became harder and harder to generate good ideas in the past few years.

Using tools like UberSuggest (ubersuggest.org) which runs off Google Suggest, or pulling from Google itself (http://clients1.google.com/complete/search?hl=en&output=tool...) is better.

Since Suggest is for users, and it shows the most popular, you can cream off suggested queries which may be based on query volumes. It's relative, but it'll do for now :)

Why not? It's free to have an AdWords account and you're not required to spend any money. I have one and haven't run a campaign in 5+ years.