I did consider that as an option, and I tried routing email through a number of other delivery services, but ultimately I rejected it for a few reasons:
I was hosting email not just for myself but for a few other people, and that gets tricky to route through Gmail;
Gmail could change their policies at any time and give me a really bad day, potentially when I can't respond to it in a timely manner;
If routing email in this way ever triggers Google's abuse mechanisms, then potentially I'm losing access to a lot of the Google network, and while I don't use it for anything personally, sometimes I have to work with companies that do;
After spending tons of hours dealing with Gmail-related headaches despite not using Gmail myself, relying on them to get mail routed felt like a deal with the devil.
I've instead helped a bunch of people get set up with Fastmail. I love Fastmail, they're great, I miss hosting my own email but they're the next best thing. Fastmail must be handling enough traffic that they're hovering above Gmail's piss-off threshold, and really my experience with them has been extraordinarily good. Everyone I've set up over there has been happy with them too, save for one person who got told by the next IT hat-wearer that "everyone's using Google Workspace and you should be too" (and then immediately ran into a problem during setup that snowballed into a big hairy mess).
I was hosting email not just for myself but for a few other people, and that gets tricky to route through Gmail;
Gmail could change their policies at any time and give me a really bad day, potentially when I can't respond to it in a timely manner;
If routing email in this way ever triggers Google's abuse mechanisms, then potentially I'm losing access to a lot of the Google network, and while I don't use it for anything personally, sometimes I have to work with companies that do;
After spending tons of hours dealing with Gmail-related headaches despite not using Gmail myself, relying on them to get mail routed felt like a deal with the devil.
I've instead helped a bunch of people get set up with Fastmail. I love Fastmail, they're great, I miss hosting my own email but they're the next best thing. Fastmail must be handling enough traffic that they're hovering above Gmail's piss-off threshold, and really my experience with them has been extraordinarily good. Everyone I've set up over there has been happy with them too, save for one person who got told by the next IT hat-wearer that "everyone's using Google Workspace and you should be too" (and then immediately ran into a problem during setup that snowballed into a big hairy mess).