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Here's Lemmy's reply from yesterday triggered by the same concern:
https://lemmy.world/post/53735981
Gmail was actually the easiest one to separate from, if you just count the transferring email addresses. It is a pain in the ass because so many services fight like hell to hold onto your google account you sometimes have to jump through hoops to remove it--a security risk in itself.
The big sticking point for me so far is photos... there are other options, but itś all integrated into my phone in weird ways I don't want to bother with right now.
GMail is not that easy. Because, there are places and services that use e-mail clients that are easy to be sent to and received by GMail. I've experienced this with ProtonMail for a while, where there'll be services and individuals that could not reach me through my Proton e-mail and I've had difficulty reaching out to them.