Inbox should have met that metric. I think it is a culture thing, it's far more easier to deprecate any product than to keep supporting it
The biggest feature I miss from Inbox is the integration of TODOs and emails: you could create editable TODOs in your inbox as easily as composing a new email, and when viewing am email thread, you could create a TODO attached to an email thread (e.g. “review the attached document and reply with my feedback”).