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I'm doing the same but for more reasons than that. I'm honestly just sick of them. And Apple and Microsoft, to be fair. I'm tired of them all and the last decade of increasingly mounting bullshit. I genuinely want to support smaller businesses and help build up alternatives, and I'm tired of feeling bound to the big boys and forced to swallow whatever garbage they'll push next.
Google's shit just isn't notably better than anyone else's at this point, either. Not in most cases. Maps is still king and likely will be for a long time, but other than that? Meh. Email is email, haven't lost anything by moving to Tutanota. Dropping Google Drive was easy when they killed the proper functionality of the desktop sync app a few years ago. Google Play Music got murdered and the only reason I kept that subscription was for YouTube, but the price increase next month is making me drop that too.
The real bitch is Android. It's becoming increasingly difficult to use it without Google Play Services.