Pros and cons of a paid plan?

Hi.

For some time as a Proton Mail user, I have seen Mail Plus and Proton Unlimited being available for $4.99 and $12.99, respectively, on a monthly basis.

But was it worth it for those of you who pay for it?

I can only speak for myself, but for the most part I’ve been pretty satisfied with the free plan as I still have nearly half my 1GB storage still remaining and I’ve been a free user for longer than a year.

But out of all the perks on the paid plans it would be nice to create aliases and have my pwn domain.

I don’t need a VPN or 500GB storage (not right now anyway) and I prefer not using all the services of a single company as I feel that wokld make me reliant on them, so I like mixing it up and having a different password manager and a different 2FA and different Drive service and so on.

So, what do you think? Plus, how do you pay for it? Cash? Credit/debit card? Apple Pay? Crypto?