Google/Gmail is a nightmare to use for me as someone who travels overseas to visit family. Logging into Gmail from a different device is a harrowing experience.

Google/Gmail is a nightmare to use for me as someone who travels overseas to visit family. Logging into Gmail from a different device is a harrowing experience. SMS 2FA doesn't work with many providers even with international roaming turned on. So you're dead in the water and face a potential account ban that can never be recovered. Years ago, I had my account suspended when I was implementing an Adsense integration into a site for no discernible reason. I have too many ancient financial institution's login tied up to my primary email. That was the last time I signed up for anything related to Google. At my workplace, I'm a strong advocate against the Google ecosystem. A few of us fought hard to keep our cloud systems away from Google and move to Azure. I've seen similar sentiments from quite a few devs in the last few years.