There is also 365 Basic, which is also $5 and gives you 1TB of Onedrive storage...

By far a better email service and the 2fa just works.

Works if all you need are Gmail and Docs.

It's a very bad idea if you want to use the account as a Google account. i.e. smart home does not work, lots of user features do not work, there is no workaround to this other than "don't use a Google Workplace account for personal life things, get a Gmail account".

Example of the pain to try and migrate from Workplace to Gmail just to get the workaround working: https://medium.com/@buro9/one-account-all-of-google-4d292906...

Can you even use that if you're not logged in?

Could you elaborate on what you mean by "use"?

How do you gain meaningful access to help/support without being able to sign-in to their help portal / ticket system?

I've been exposed to that type of Kafkian catch-22 nightmare scenario all too many times :|

You call the phone number

When I was admining G Suite, if you wanted to call in, you needed to login to get the phone number and an access code. Which is hard to do when you can't log in.