Smoking, lottery tickets, and drugs cause negative effects in people's lives. Using gmail has caused me no negative effects. It may not be ideal, but it works

Smoking, lottery tickets, and drugs cause negative effects in people's lives. Using gmail has caused me no negative effects. It may not be ideal, but it works and has a reasonable set of tradeoffs. I think it's more like renting vs buying or building from source vs compiled binaries than it is a crippling substance addiction which will ruin your health and relationships.