I need help migrating away from Google Workspace (legacy G Suite) into a regular Gmail :(:(:(

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As subject. I've put up with Google Workspace long enough and need to come up with a plan to migrate away. Having bought a house last year and trying to make home tech work better I'm coming across silly things like the Nest doorbell won't work with GW, or I can't invite my partner to our 'Home'). It's nonsense. I have a couple of regular Gmail accounts, one of which I'm happy to migrate my "life" into and use as a primary login. However I've spent the last week looking into this and it seems so complicated, different for every Google product etc. It's an absolute nightmare and I just want out :( I've had my G Suite account for 21 years, using it to collate various email addresses I've had along the way, using the calendar etc. so there is A LOT of content. Pretty much my digital life since before Facebook was a thing :(

Products that I use;
  • Gmail
    • 2x domain email addresses
    • 2x regular Gmail accounts via POP3
    • 1x Hotmail account via POP3
    • 1x Yahoo account via POP3
  • Drive
    • ¬100GB paid storage on 120GB plan
  • Google photos
  • Calendar (definitely want old events transferred somehow)
  • Keep (used heavily probably 500 notes or so)
  • Sheets, docs etc.
Going forward I'd still like to be able to receive (and send) email from my domain. Ideally I would properly transfer data from everything else into the new primary Gmail account (figuring out how to do that is a nightmare).

Any top tips, has anyone done this? I think I need to figure out a high-level plan before diving into exactly how I'm going to do it for each product :o
 
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