Gmail Rant

one thing i've been wondering for a while now is why the hell does Gmail (or any other email services) charge money for storage!?!?!?! so many years it has been free and just now they decided "hey, maybe we're gonna charge money now" and like??? wtf, now it's nearly unusable unless you delete emails but like, that's such a tedious task..having to choose what to delete and what to keep is sooo annoying. i cant be the only one being this annoyed