[shultays]

   Having your email on Google is not a risk 

That is like the highest risk I can think of. Losing future emails that are sent to that email, losing all connected accounts, losing access to services/websites they decide to send a confirmation mail

[encryptluks2]

That is why you should add a custom domain. You have the same lockout issue with Outlook, ProtonMail, or any email service where you don't own the domain.

[pyrale]

Yeah, the question is whether google makes sense as a mail provided once you've decided that you needed to pay because of that feature.

If you're a company and don't want to manually handle email provisioning? Sure, why not. If you're an individual, Google isn't great. You could have a decent feature set along with great customer support elsewhere.

[encryptluks2]

With an email addy relay like SinpeLogin you don't have to pay Google for that feature.

[shultays]

I misunderstood you then, "having your mail on google and syncing them" sounds like you still have a @gmail.com but taking backups. Having your own domain is indeed the safest, I do that actually