I so want to ditch Proton right now, but I have a lot of resumes out and have been using them for ~4 years, so all of my accounts are linked in a sense.

What to do what to do.. I know and fully agree that what's going on is sus, but I think I need to stick with it for a few more months until the job thing pans out.

I recommend switching to a custom domain in the future so you can avoid situations like this from happening again, this way you won't be locked down onto a single provider.

Sorry, could you please expand on that? Like buying your own domain and hosting your own email server? Or buying a domain and having Proton as the mail server backend?

Buying your own domain and pointing its DNS at your email provider. The email provider is still your host, but you get to use [email protected] everywhere and you can seamlessly switch providers. I've done it a few times, now.

yea i used alot emails for my resume when i was job seeking, the one i used switched over during covid, limit "inacitivity to 6 months, deletes your account", wish it dint.