10 years ago the corporation of evil was M$, when Google the Don't Be Evil eventually became more evil? I agree with the statement but seems like I
have missed the moment when it happened.
But maybe it was just a realization of what was more profitable? R&D becomes exponentially more expensive the more advanced search you try to provide, but any random weird company will be interested in user data for marketing.
Just a little anecdote: I have subscribed to a lot of newsletters about some FOSS projects I like. I use to never read those letters and now I have reached the limit. Now I can not delete those newsletters without deleting everything because I can not mark more than few tens of those letters at once while having few millions of them.
if you labeled them or create a search that is specific to them ( perhaps from:mailing-list@address ):
there is a checkbox above the email listing. clicking it selects everything on the current page.
instead of clicking that, click the arrow next to it. a variety of selection options appears.
select "all"
a banner then appears that says you've selected everything on the current screen, and offesr to select everything that matches it in your account
click the offer to select all matching items
you can then issue a mass move or mass label or mass delete or whatever
I haven't tested this (I'm not purging my own mailing lists to try it :) ) and a selection mistake would be costly, but it appears to be correct.
I guess people who are complaining should learn how to do the skilled trades - electricians, plumbers, HVAC, car repair.