Sounds like a joke to me? I do not get the infuriating part.

I mentioned in my comment that the prices were based off the cheapest “premium” plan. If I were to include freemium, tutanota, mailbox.org and others would also be free.

There’s alot of good options (prices are for the base/cheapest premium plan plan) :

• Tutanota
  • 3€/m billed yearly
• Protonmail
  • $4/m billed yearly
• Mailbox.org
  • 1€/m billed yearly
• Posteo.de
  • 1€/m billed yearly
• Fastmail
  • $3/m billed yearly
• Runbox
  • $1.66/m billed yearly ($19.95)

All are good options, do your own research though.

I would recommend Navidrome + a subsonic player, but it is alot more effort.