As another commenter put it, the approaches are not mutually exclusive. I’ve ditched most of Googles services over the past 5 years:

Pixel --> Pixel w/ Graphene (If Graphene ever makes their own hardware, I will drop my Pixel in an instant) Gmail --> ProtonMail Google Calendar --> Proton Calendar Google.com --> Duckduckgo.com Google PlayStore --> FDroid Google Docs/Sheets --> Libre Office Google Keep --> Obsidian w/ sync Google Maps --> Organic Maps Google Home (never had this shit to begin with) --> Self-hosted Home Assistant

And I plan to continue that trend. I’ve personally gotten many of my friends and family to make these switches as well.

I don’t need (or want) your weird, hypothetical, backhanded apology. However, I think you inadvertently carry water for Google when you muster up this false sense of superiority and blame everyone else for the problems that greedy tech bros create. But hey, if you simply can’t stop yourself, then maybe adopt a more positive approach to getting people to switch, rather than assuming that everyone is dumber than you. Good luck!