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by nightgarden 1604 days ago
I'm paying for Workspace and use it as my primary Google Account and really wouldn't recommend it unless you also have another regular Google account and use Workspace only for work, because the "Google experience" on a Google workspace account is really sub-par. Google assistant functionality is limited, you can't get invited to someone's home, you can't set up a family, actually you can't use Google One at all. The list of inconveniences is huge. I've been planning to move out of Google Workspace for years but it's a hassle to migrate primary inbox.
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+1 to this.

Adding on: I also can't use Google Pay on my G Suite Legacy account, we can't be invited to families for Google One/YouTube Premium either, and apparently my free Google Voice number might stop working if I fail to transfer it to a free @gmail.com account before they force me to downgrade.

I’ve been doing the same, primarily for the unlimited storage, which I have long used as an offsite backup. But just this month they have taken that away. It’s just another thing in a very long list that they kill with little warning. So add that to the growing list of reasons not to use GSuite.