The other day they’ve been exposed for backpedalling on their promises to spare inactive accounts that were created before 2024 until next year from the inactive accounts deletion policy.

Honestly, where’s the issue with that? Why should they continue to host some 10 year old account, when they only lose money by doing so. Proton is not Google, they don’t earn any money from users on the free plan, because they don’t scan your emails and sell your data. If you want to be in control, use your own domain (which Proton as well as other services like Tuta support btw) and store your emails offline (e.g. in Thunderbird).