Sure, but they appear to be moving to single-sign-in for all their services and that single thing is a real-name based identity service. Google has reportedly

Sure, but they appear to be moving to single-sign-in for all their services and that single thing is a real-name based identity service. Google has reportedly closed other accounts that predated G+ for G+ problems. I don't know if they'll push that to gmail too but they haven't said they won't. I'm not calling them bastards based on no evidence or anything but I'm not using gmail for anything important because I can't really count on it.