Exactly this. I truly don't understand that people put their professional career on the line for the price of a domain name. I also use GMail, it's incredibly

Exactly this. I truly don't understand that people put their professional career on the line for the price of a domain name. I also use GMail, it's incredibly useful. But it's my own domain, and if there's a problem, I point the MX records of my domain name to another email provider and forget about Google.