Can I split my contacts between iCloud and Gmail to manage device limit?

Here are the published limits

Limits for iCloud Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Bookmarks, and Maps - Apple Support

Enterprise support said I am hitting the image limit of 200Mb, which averages around 25k per contact image for me (8,000 contacts), maxing out the contacts that would be a 4k image limit per contact. Now that people can automatically share their contact photo when they text you, many of those are in the Mb range, so I suspect more people will start to bump into Apples contact image limit.

Apple does 50,000; but if you have images for your contacts that runs out. It is the images with contacts that was limiting me. I considered looking at CRM's, but I felt like that might not integrate as nicely in the apple ecosystem with messaging and email from the apple native tools. Maybe I am wrong though - @MrHoffman are you using anything professional ?

Limits for iCloud Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Bookmarks, and Maps - Apple Support

I did open a ticket with Apple Enterprise support, and they said limits are hard, they could not tell me which of my contacts are using the most space. Going through and deleting images, and contacts from a list of 8,000 is not fun.

Apple said send a product suggestion in to up the limit, which I did do (and had done in the past also)

I have been bumping against the limit for 2 years, and several versions of MacOS and iOS.

I have been on the Apple ecosystem for 20+ years, and it's frustrating to have this limit. Especially paying for enterprise support and iCloud+ top storage tier.

If anyone comes back around here looking at the same issue -- What I ended up doing was splitting my contacts into 2, and putting some on Apple and some on Google. 

For me, I put the companies on Google and the People on Apple.  In hindsight, I would have switched it the other way around, because Google does not allow you to list a contact by Company, and it takes the company name and populates the first and last name of the contact.

But for now, it got me around the Apple contacts limit.

Apple, besides increasing the limit for your paying customers, it would be nice to show how much space contacts are using, so we can see how close we are getting to the limit.