I don't like the 'if you don't like free service X that you've been using for Y years then don't use it'. There is a cost to switch, and that cost to switch alone outweighs all the benefit of using LE in the first place. That's not what I was sold when I went into it, and even 'free' users are entitled to being treated with some care.

On the assumption that you are using a free gmail account: would you agree that Google could shut down the free tier of gmail tomorrow unless we all move to Chrome and it would be our problem to deal with the consequences?