I think it's also important to highlight that perfect is the enemy of good. I moved from Google services (A) to an open source platform... that I was paying the

I think it's also important to highlight that perfect is the enemy of good. I moved from Google services (A) to an open source platform... that I was paying them to host on Google Cloud (B). Sure, it's still at Google, but the ability for Google to mine data from it is significantly reduced. Of course, later, I moved to hosting it in-house (C), where I have direct physical control. It's likely if my choices were A or C, I'd have never left A. But that B option eased the transition for me, and made it possible for me to get to the point I felt like the investment was worth it to create a fully on-premise solution. There's a part D to this too, actually: I'm still using a service to manage the DNS and TLS for it. Eventually I should be able to move away from that too. But without the intermediate step, it'd be too prohibitive and frustrating to have moved to step C.