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I mean, Gmail isn't necessarily a bad email service. Most people on here probably just want to avoid giving Google more data about them. Whether other VoIP Providers are better on privacy - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's irrelevant.
None of the other options do what Google voice does. There's no direct equivalent. Not that I've ever run across, and I've looked.
Jmp is the closest, and it still doesn't have feature parity all the way.
As far as function, they've got a nice little package all wrapped up and easy to use. Aside from the group text thing I mentioned elsewhere, it's a pretty slick implementation. But for a user base of one, with privacy concerns, I'd rather use something that's a bit rougher around the edges yet more configurable, and more private.
From where I sit, it's a pretty decent email service from both user-side and admin-side, including for biz use in nearly any size org.
It's all about the data, and not wanting to be the product for me - I have no direct beef with their implementation or abstractions of admin-side details. I just would rather pay a relatively small amount of money than pay with my data.