Stop using gmail.com for things you care about 10 years ago
I use fastmail.com for electronic mail, and I gladly pay for it.
Marvel at the simplicity: you pay for a service, and the provider's incentive is to serve you!
This versus the alternative where you use a "service" provided free of cost, and the "provider" makes money by selling data they have harvested from your interactions. You give away your privacy; you have no reason to expect support; you are not actually the customer.