* The person who pushed for the Inbox project got the promotion/raise they desired and move onto other new projects for further advancement.
* Inbox was too good at quickly managing email, and Google would prefer you spend more time fighting the interface in Gmail and seeing ads than getting this done efficiently.
Call me cynical but that's where I'm at with Google at this point.
What ads?
I'm quite close to removing the whole damn app too and go for K9-mail or something again (does that still get updated?)
Also the web interface for gmail is absolute trash when you are using firefox, so is youtube creator studio beta. Even the "feedback" button is broken so I can't tell them it doesn't work.
Do you see ads in Gmail?
I don't anymore and it feels it has been like since a very long time.
(and my AdBlock os turned off on Gmail)
On GSuite (non-free version of Gmail) I don't see the ads either and it is supposed to be like that (after all, it's paid)