how to get away from yahoo I hate yahoo

I totally despise yahoo email!  I did want to migrate but it was mandatory and I had not choice.  I get so many ads but to get rid of them yahoo wants you to spend money for a plan to be add free?  Ridiculous,  The emails are hard to read and find. too much spam.

Any suggestions on how to get away from yahoo email?  I have so many people who have my email and afraid to change I would lose do many contacts.  I have had comcast email for over 30 years and never had any problems until they forced this yahoo stuff on us.  I heard once you are using yahoo you can not go back?  There has to be something we can do to have a more user friendly email account without all this adds and junk emails.