[zachruss92]

I think the article forgets that Google is a business and they have an intrinsic motivation to make money. IMHO Google provides a ton of software at no charge to customers (I know, ads). Moving to a consumption-based pricing model w/ a generous free tier means that only the users who use Google's services the most end up paying for it.

Also, $20/yr for 100GB seems like a steal. I use G Suite even for my personal email but even on my longest-standing account with almost a decade of history I am only using 20GBs with the majority of that being photos.