email transfer quesiton

I understand since last Aug 2019, cox no longer allows me to add a new email address to my account.

In fact if I delete one of my email accounts they state I will not be able to add a new one.

In there update they state this is to better server me.   Sounds like a contradiction.

My guess is the future goal is to remove email from their service while not decreasing the monthly bill.

Are there any tools or methods of transferring email to an alternative mail, like gmail, or one of the

many others?

Ken