How many thousands of Thunderbird development hours could have been paid with this completely unnecessary nonsense?
I understand that all organisations with a certain size tend to develop some sort of silly politics and bureaucratic workflows. But Mozilla seams to have a awful lot of nonsense going on in the last few years.
And I'd even excuse this exercise in branding if the results were actually good...but alas.
Keep in mind I absolutely value good design and branding. I think it's critical. So I'm not just some curmudgeon who doesn't understand the value of something like this. But if you're going to do a rebrand, you have to understand deeply why you're doing it and do it in a way that's evolutionary. This is way too revolutionary for a foundation that mostly stays in the background and whose brand is held up by the brand of it's products like Firefox moreso than it's own brand.
Yes! A thousand times Yes! The first paragraph of Mozilla's mission statement[1] reads "Our mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. An Internet that truly puts people first, where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered, safe and independent"
Email is still a very important and unsolved part of the internet, but Mozilla has dropped the ball and is instead doubling down on IoT and other peripheral projects. I don't see any other email client or email provider in existance that empowers the individuals the way Mozilla could, which is a crying shame.