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 Of course I agree with you that email is not private and awful.  Of course I agree Tor is more anonymous than a VPN..

THAT’S NOT WHAT WE ARE DEBATING.

I disagree with you that I have to accept things for the way they are.  I disagree that have to get down on my knees and obey.  It turns it into a completely involuntary interaction with Google.  This is Mullvad’s only form of contact.  And change has to start SOMEWHERE.  SOMEONE has to crack, and I pick the one who claims to be for privacy.  If we can’t get Mullvad to change, then nobody.

I agree with you that many other companies have worse privacy policies, what I’m saying is that Mullvad can be converted.  They can be changed.  Of course companies using Gmail makes the internet more centralized, how can you even debate this point?  Again, you’re saying, submit and accept the empire.  I don’t submit.  I’m not obeying. 
 Your OP was clickbaity and sensationalized.
It's ok to want Mullvad to move away from gmail for ideological reasons but that was not your tone.
You claimed that because of that "they don't give a shit about user privacy". You thus implied it affected user privacy when that's clearly not true.
Yes a user can doxx all his PII in a customer support email and then reuse the same mullvad account, but at that point, that's more of an L to him than to mullvad. Personal responsibility is irreplaceable. 
 Yes you’re correct that the burden of responsibility falls on the individual for anything in life.  But Mullvad is misrepresenting themselves here.  If they really cared, they wouldn’t do this.  My tone is to purposefully create negative consequences for the use of Big Tech, to force them to change.  As if I worded it in a “wouldn’t it be nice” way, then I would be ignored.