I will never pay for gmail, because as an early beta user from the early 2000's that hyped it up to everyone I knew, I won't forget how Gmail was marketed as a free email service where you will never have to delete another email again. 2gb really meant a lot in those days, I was even able to store my entire music library on gmail. Well, 17+ years and 10's of thousands of deleted emails later, gmail offers a measly 15gb and that includes data from other google services.
I'm no cheapskate, I happily pay for 10 mail accounts through Zoho, but I try my best to avoid giving my money to the lying, evil SJW bastards at google.