Before you compare EU email providers, get your own domain. It is the single change that lets you switch providers later without redoing the painful migration.
Ok, you confuse me a bit by throwing SSL into this comment but your first part got me to look at a registrar mentioned in other comments and I see what you mean.
It used to be the default and you could pay for privacy. I think it’s free these days.
FYI, Mozilla do free SSL certificates (for HTTPS) these days which used to be quite expensive.
https://letsencrypt.org/
Ok, you confuse me a bit by throwing SSL into this comment but your first part got me to look at a registrar mentioned in other comments and I see what you mean.
Info found here https://kb.porkbun.com/article/97-how-to-configure-whois-privacy-service-porkbun
Was a pain to automate for my VPS, but alas better than nothing