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It's this linkage with the rest of your accounts that can make doing business with them particularly dangerous. After the Google+ real names debacle started, which included people using their real names which Google didn't believe, and shutting down all their Google services, I stopped using every one of their services except for ephemeral zero stickiness ones like search (fortunately I'd discovered Fastmail some time previously, and they're beyond wonderful).

Buying a house built in 1910 and having to remodel and move to it financially prompted me to buy a smart phone, and Project Fi was clearly the best match, so I've now seriously reversed that ... but that also means I now won't even think about increasing my exposure to these sorts of risks by trying to write apps for the Play store, using any of their cloud offerings, etc. My main phone and its number are too valuable, too sticky to risk.