Sometime 5-10 years ago I degoogled my personal life. It took a while, and was inconvenient for many reasons. One additional reason I didn't consider was that

Sometime 5-10 years ago I degoogled my personal life. It took a while, and was inconvenient for many reasons. One additional reason I didn't consider was that when I was giving out my email address for one reason or another, trying to provide it clearly always felt like a point of failure, whereas EVERYONE will correctly receive my gmail address when I tell them. Since most of my friends and family use google, they still had all of my email once I switched, from their side, so I just went back to Google for gmail. For messaging I use Signal/iMessage/Whatsapp though.