I'm one of the early Gmail testers who registered for the beta program and got invitation from Gmail directly. Unluckily or maybe luckily from the first date af

I'm one of the early Gmail testers who registered for the beta program and got invitation from Gmail directly. Unluckily or maybe luckily from the first date after registration, I started to receive spams which I have no idea why. Contacted their support team quite a few times asking for sender blocking feature and the answer was always some arrogant bs like "Nah, we have the best spam filter and thus sender blocking is unnecessary... blah blah...". As a result, I felt it might be a mistake to use Gmail as my primary email account. So I narrowly avoided Gmail but again, I've no confidence that other providers will not do something similar to this. Maybe it's time to do self-hosting now.