I fully agree. Over the years I've been reading about people being locked out of their Gmail accounts, and the YEARS of pain they had to go through to try to re

I fully agree. Over the years I've been reading about people being locked out of their Gmail accounts, and the YEARS of pain they had to go through to try to regain access to the countless connected services. You don't realise how many hundreds of services require access to your email account until you lose access. The final straw was reading the heartbreaking account of someone who lost decades worth of personal pictures, critical emails, and access to everything that mattered to him. Google's response was worse than "get lost." So I bought my own domain and have spent the last year slowly migrating everything over. I'm still only ~30% of the way there. My whole life was centered around that Gmail address, and I could have lost it in an instant for any and no reason at all. It's horrifying, and happens to perhaps thousands of people every day. As we continue to SaaSify everything this problem is going to come to the fore sooner rather than later. Our entire lives live in the cloud now and it can be deleted without cause or notice. At the very least I would like to see governments issue people a free state email address which can be hosted anywhere. Email is now a necessity.