The contempt Proton is showing for their users is astounding. They not only think people will fall for this transparent act of damage control, but they also have the gall to shift blame onto the users.
Go read the comments. Obvious bots are posting praise and many critical comments are being deleted by the moderators.
Go piecemeal. Proton is a good deal if you actually use all their services, otherwise it’s overpriced.
For mail, mailbox.org, posteo.de, and fastmail.net seem to have good reputations. They’ll all allow you to bring your own domain (edit: not Posteo, my mistake), which I highly recommend so that it’ll be easy to switch providers again when whichever one you choose turns to shit (yes, I say when, not if, because I am just that jaded at this point).
For passwords, there are a lot of choices, but the most future-proof is probably to keep a local Keepass DB and sync it across devices any damn way you want. Bitwarden used to be good but I don’t know anymore. They’ve backed away from open source a bit recently, and I can’t even tell at a glance what their free plan offers anymore. Maybe look at https://vaultwarden.com/ instead.
For VPN and storage…I dunno. There are a lot, and most of them seem kind of shady tbh. I’d be interested in hearing others’ advice on this since I’m not sure what’s good these days.
Edit: I’d REALLY like to hear recommendations for Docs and especially Sheets. Everything else I’ve used is a UX nightmare, particularly on mobile.
Just a small note, afaik posteo doesn’t support custom domains
Oh, looks like you’re right. Thanks for the correction.
Personally, I’m on PIA for VPN and Mega for storage. Both not without their controversies, of course, but they work well, have native Linux GUIs, and seem solid enough for my purposes.