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But Gmail is interoperable with other mail systems and they didn't create incompatible extensions to email (AFAIAA); that's quite different to how IE6 was.

If Gmail required emails themselves to be in a special format that broke other MUA and IE6 wouldn't render standards compliant emails in a way you could read. That would be analogous to what IE6 was up to.

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> If Gmail required emails themselves to be in a special format that broke other MUA and IE6 wouldn't render standards compliant emails in a way you could read.

Gmail is as notorious as IE6 was for its rather poor support of HTML and CSS in email.

take a look at AMP for emails...

https://amp.dev/about/email/

amp4email is open for anyone to support, and per https://blog.amp.dev/2019/03/26/building-the-future-of-email... it's supported by Yahoo Mail, Mail.ru, Outlook, and Gmail. It's not comparable to IE-only features.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)

Christ. If that's "the future of email", I'm going back to writing letters.

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