and if you need more you’re probably using a dedicated mail client anyway

Are you sure you’re not using anything else google related that might clog it up? That’s what I’m getting at. Check google one for a breakdown.

5GB is plenty for emails, won’t be an issue for 99% of people.

THE problem with google’s storage is that they actively mislead consumers:

1. They bother customers during setup and after with: “Do you want to backup your device?” To which a considerable amount of people react to as “Yeah ofcourse I want that!”
2. Google does not show any indication where this backup goes or about the eventual payment so people just forget about it.
3. After some time their gmail and photos app will start to complain: “YOUR STORAGE IS FULL” - with constant notifications. And their Gmail stops working so they can’t receive emails anymore.
4. These regular people confuse ‘storage’ with internal storage so they start looking for ways to expand their internal storage, which obviously doesn’t do anything.
5. Eventually they give up and either pay google the ransom or make a new email.

This is the real dark pattern behind their “free cloud”