Pay for a VPS for your email, contacts and calendar. Use DuckDuckGo. Buy and iPhone and use Apple Maps (data collection is not their business model).
These are easily viable options to keep you 90% out of the data collection giant.
You're glossing over a very key point: macOS.
As hard as it may be for you to understand, your average computer user, even intelligent people who do real work, usually can't easily up and switch to a new OS and stay productive. Yes Apple makes switching away harder with their ecosystem lock-in, but still, changing primary OSs is a large task for most people.
I broke my iPhone 7 about a month ago and have been waiting for the new stuff. After the corroborated leaks started coming out I just went and bought an SE which, ironically, arrived today. New phones are too big. I was hoping for a new small phone. Iâ(TM)ve used many large phones on my time and find the poor one-handed operation to totally ruin it.
I'm with you on #2. I'm tired of seeing whiny middle-age women complaining about not being able to live in one of the best cities in the world because "Google".
Speaking as somebody with a CS B.S. in the SV area, and with a handful of friends the same, I think this sounds about right. If anything 66k for an entry salary is a bit low. I would have expected more like 75 as an average entry salary.