It works great for me. I recommend it. I’m not sure what working at Google has to do with recommending or not.

I don’t use any of the non-core services because I expect them to be killed off soon anyway. For contacts, email, docs, and drive it works great. YouTube as well.

I have a “regular” Gmail account in case I need to use any niche services that don’t work with my Workspace account.

Overall the trade off is well worth it.