There’s actually a trick where you don’t have to use Godaddy. I don’t know why they don’t open this up to users who want it. All you have to do is find the DNS challenge in the query param that’s passed to Godaddy. After that there’s no real persistent connection. Have been using a custom domain on the family plan for over a year this way, with my domain on Namecheap.

Oh really? I thought I just had to point DNS entries and that's it. Bah, I guess I don't mind then.

Ew, why on earth would they lock that down to force you to use what is hands down the worst domain registrar out there?!