It reminds me of Microsoft's change from Hotmail to Hotmail Live, which took 10 times longer to load and glitched constantly and I now have like 400 unread emails because I stopped using it. I now have a domain name in my own name so I literally tell people my email is (first name)@(full name).com and it works so much simpler.
However, the ironic thing is my email is hosted on the same server as my brothers, yet I haven't seen or emailed him in like 6 months.