GSuite/Workspace and consumer GMail is not the same thing in the slightest. They may use the same mail servers but that is about where the similarity ends.

I would recommend Google Workspace to any company because it gives them a ton of business productivity tools.

I would probably not recommend gmail as a users default personal email because frankly it's not that good.

The reality is most users have a Google account ans just use their Gmail account which is bundled.

Most of my circle which cares effectively use their Gmail account for sites that insist on it and never open that e-mail if they can get away with it.