I'm definitely not a power user, but I see and understand the issues. But for someone like me, if I take all this advice, there is still the aspect of trusting

I'm definitely not a power user, but I see and understand the issues. But for someone like me, if I take all this advice, there is still the aspect of trusting the domain registrar, maintaining a personal email server, hosting, CloudFlare, etc. etc. I have just shifted some risk of offending Google to some other risks of 3x more companies that I have to remember how to deal with now. So what difference does it mean to me, average user, that I just stick with Google and don't misbehave, versus open myself up to having to deal with 3 other manual processes and companies to remember? It's turtles all the way down. You see the dilemma for the average user.