This has been their way for a how long though. We are lucky that gmail is still around

Yep. I stopped buying Google phones and all of their other products long ago because of this… and I’m looking to get off of Google hosted email and calendars as well.

It’s a bummer how much the Nest acquisition fucked up such a good product.

where will you center your webmail and such?

I’m unsure. Thought about using iCloud with my custom domain… but they’re missing a couple Gmail features I like, like labeling.

yeah the labeling and spam features do come in handy but i bet you are probably using the labeling in ways i havent even thought of lol