It seems you're not getting the point. The problem is not for users of those "awesome" Google services the problem manifests itself for people sending legitimate emails from legitimate email accounts to a Google account.

Google tags those as spam and refuses to deliver them, while always shifting the goal posts and providing sub par support (an number of essentially useless links) to the sender of the email to a Google account.

This happens, btw, also when the sender account never spammed and sent legitimate mails to the Gmail user for years.

So your snarky comment is completely out of line here.

It's not about people mooching free "awesome" Google services for free it's that Google is a rotten net citizen and is behaving like shit to the entire world.

It's funny to me that people in this thread are complaining about Google being large enough to serve as a de-facto authority, when the only way one could solve a "legitimate emails are being blocked" problem is to have a definition of 'legitimate' that would come from... an authority.

Google is dropping the ball but I don't know what the solution would look like that isn't just "Someone else be Google now." ;)

I don't use gmail these days (except as a honeypot out of laziness), but I get plenty of email from google hosted domains. The issue isn't (just) that people want to use these services and want Google to have more reasonable policies, there is also the issue of having to tolerate Google's policies because other people use their services.

Emails from Google servers are notable to me because there is no way to report spam (and the signal to noise ratio from Google is pretty low for my case). Google's opaque approach to email means that deliverability issues become even more tedious to deal with than they should be.

Maybe I’m weird, but I’ve never been in an AMP where I wouldn’t rather go to the actual side and use reader mode.