If I could find a good alternative to gmail, I'd take it in a second. Over the years, I've really started to dislike gmail, and most of google's services.
Just a good alternative, I'm willing to pay, I just get scared sometimes that I'm going to lose out on quality by moving away from gmail.
But the more time goes on, the more I hate the interface changes to gmail, and IMAP to my local client is something that can happen with just about any service.