> Google isn't "killing" anything, they are just asking users to start paying for it. Perhaps that loses them some users, but they are clearly after something e

> Google isn't "killing" anything, they are just asking users to start paying for it. Perhaps that loses them some users, but they are clearly after something else here (revenue, maybe they have data on how paid users behave differently, perhaps spam/bad actors are a concern on the free plan, idk) For many of these users, Google is asking them to pay for... not really anything in return. Maybe they only used the custom email domain, maybe not even that. Maybe they're just asking them to pay for the continued ability to pay for other services like Android apps, YouTube Premium, extended drive storage etc, and continued access to things like Docs/Hangouts that other users will continue to have for free.