Researching other options will take some time + the deliverability/spam-detection will only get worse. You can check e-mail price of "@gmail" on darkweb and co

Researching other options will take some time + the deliverability/spam-detection will only get worse. You can check e-mail price of "@gmail" on darkweb and compare it against other providers. For them it's a "threshold" to balance security on scale and they're doing a pretty good job imo.