Before updating my phone to android 12, I made an effort to eradicate google from my life, so I pushed through one last time, switched from gdrive to filen (and made local backups), completely left gphotos, switched all of my commercial accounts to a tutanota email address and deleted unused ones, debloated my phone, and here I am finally degoogled. I'm free, I guess.
BUT WAIT!
I still have an instagram account. Isn't this supposed to be bad? Whatever, I only use it to connect to those people you only meet once in your life, I open it once a month.
BUT WAIT!
I still use whatsapp on a daily basis. I think this is bad and... I must begrudgingly accept it. Why? Because everyone uses whatsapp. And why is that? Because of igonarance, they don't know how bad whatsapp is, they don't know how better other services are for privacy. If you suggest for someone to switch to say Briar, they'd say "why? We already have whatsapp, it can't get any better". Meanwhile, those same people (basically everyone) will go blame and attack the government, "self-criticize" our broke country because "wHy tHe WeSt can Do aLl Of ThiS but We CaN't"
Because you keep **giving your money and data to foreigners**, rich, greedy ones. You can't bash your country because it magically just can't give you your needs when you greedy bastard eat Burger King for launch, wear Louis Vuitton clothes, buy the newest iphone to show your prestige and praise a former empire to recolonize your country because they certainly weren't the reason for your country's demise.
Even big businesses here use whatsapp for work, for contacting customers, even schools use it to teach children (sending agendas, homework, pre-recorded lessons and also live calls). Assuming whatsapp is e2e (and I hope it f*cking is or I will chop my hand and roast it for dinner), it's still miserably better than the public institutions' email servers whatever the hell they're using.

I will stop here here because going any further on a degoogle community is an overkill. Have a nice day.