No.

Too powerful and licensing isn’t as good as it wa sin the past. Google was a great company but not anymore. It’s like they hired apple people who gain more and more power within the company over the years.

Primarily. Secondarily, to avoid putting all my eggs in one basket. As in, not using one singular network of services, and instead spreading it out. Diversify yo services.

For me, yes. It’s the thing that drives me, but as I get on, the more I dislike the company and would be happy if they failed for being shit privacy wise.

One of the reasons I do it is because Google is a bad partner. They will cancel your accounts and delete the contents for no reason, offer no way to get it back and they just don’t care. They will happily do that to companies that pay them thousands a month, they really just don’t care. Even if you don’t buy into the company being evil and privacy invading its also just unreliable to use as any moment they could blow all your data away without reason.

Primarily yes, however a few other reasons are that i like FOSS, see no advertising (thanks to controld dns), and it makes midrange phones run much better than they would with all that crap in the background.