I'm not dead but PayPal blocked my ability to transfer my account balance to my bank account. Ultimately I only got my money out by transferring money to another PayPal account and pulling it out via bank transfer -- after which that account was suspended. I've stopped using PayPal and am switching over to Stripe for all online merchant activity.

I wish more would stop using Paypal.

paypalsucks.com

How about a Venmo alternative since Venmo is owned by PayPal?

Think it depends on your use case. For web stuff, I've used Stripe. For personal stuff I used crypto, or Cash App.