Forwarding still costs Google bandwidth and storage. It’s also not a great long term solution for yourself as you’re introducing more moving parts into your co

Forwarding still costs Google bandwidth and storage. It’s also not a great long term solution for yourself as you’re introducing more moving parts into your content delivery that can fail. Really it should be seen as a short term strategy for deprecating old addresses rather than a solution that runs indefinitely. And that’s just good practice irrespective of Google’s retention policy.