You honestly had really shitty spam blocking before. That's all. Nothing more. They didn't invent spam free email. My morning routine involves marking at least

You honestly had really shitty spam blocking before. That's all. Nothing more. They didn't invent spam free email. My morning routine involves marking at least ten emails as spam on my gmail account. They really aren't the be all and end all of spam blocking. My non-gmail account (on an address that has been around for almost a decade before gmail existed) running a more modern anti spam solution, not nearly as bad.