I'll just chip in with everyone else who is also self-hosting:
I'm in a similar boat; been running email servers since before GMail existed. My personal one I've been running out of a home server closet since 2001. I've also done everything I can to guarantee I'm not running an open relay and not sending email unsolicited. Have been mostly lucky so far, but occasionally I will have people on mailing lists I manage (people I have met IRL and put them on the list to organize group meetings IRL) not get email. Used to be other stupid mail providers (AOL comes to mind), but these days it appears to be Google, sometimes.
I've had this domain nearly twenty years and run email on it for that same amount of time. I'm not going to "just switch", especially to a privacy invading ad-spewing "alternative" that doesn't give me as much control. Fix your damn servers, Google.
Google seems to have entered terminal senility. In my circle of friends googles search engine is pretty much useless, they have killed all the useful applications we used and now this.
I can't help but think that we are seeing the google transition to late 90s microsoft now.
I mean that artists are unironically using bing as a better alternative for image searches, academics have gone back to tracking citations + libgen/scihub to find information and programmers are using duck duck go to debug their code.
This is a huge problem since these people used to be the core of googles search user base.
I'm in a similar boat; been running email servers since before GMail existed. My personal one I've been running out of a home server closet since 2001. I've also done everything I can to guarantee I'm not running an open relay and not sending email unsolicited. Have been mostly lucky so far, but occasionally I will have people on mailing lists I manage (people I have met IRL and put them on the list to organize group meetings IRL) not get email. Used to be other stupid mail providers (AOL comes to mind), but these days it appears to be Google, sometimes.
I've had this domain nearly twenty years and run email on it for that same amount of time. I'm not going to "just switch", especially to a privacy invading ad-spewing "alternative" that doesn't give me as much control. Fix your damn servers, Google.