You don't want gmail, you just think you do. Get an account where they care about you. I've been on fastmail for years, they don't make money from other ads and so their incentives are aligned with mine. There are other email companies that you can use as well. (Or at least get a paid google account if you really think you need google mail)
Thanks for completely ignoring the "if" and recommending my own email provider to me, followed by verbatim repeating what I said in parenthesis. 10/10 mansplain.
(I might be slightly salty about the repeated use of "he" further down this chain when "they" is a perfectly fine unassuming default)
What he implied is that you should own the domain for your email that way you can change email hosting providers without having to tell everyone and every service your new email.
Exactly. I use Microsoft's email service. For $69/year I can point several domains (I think the limit is 99) to my inbox. If I get sick of Microsoft, or they block me, it's my domain and I can move it to another provider.