kashmirix

Nope, this doesn't work this way. Google's model includes various licensing options, including free accounts for nonprofits and educational institutions, special licences for government bodies, various levels of business/enterprise licensing, and so on. Trust me, licence checks take place at each login to a Google service, and maintaining the code is absolutely not an issue.

Many more. I opened (and still have) a 500-user legacy account, and also have two 200-user accounts in case anyone is interested.

I believe the limitation stems from the fact that Google Family uses the same underlying mechanism in Android as Mobile Device Management that's part of Workspace. I once managed to create an account that was simultaneously in Google Family AND in Google Workspace, but the end effect were constant notifications in Android that the account has joined Family, then deleted from Family, this several times a minute.

I'm experimenting with CloudFlare's email forwarding (currently in beta) and it works very nice. Also, it's free and doesn't require changing registrars.

Come on. They have long offered free Workspace for nonprofits and for some schools. This is not going away, and support for various licensing scenarios is certainly there in the code.