Some of the largest and most important software is developed over email, e.g. Linux, QEMU, Firefox, etc... Don't make the mistake thinking that email doesn't scale. In fact, for most teams, the opposite is true.
This is wrong.
This is exactly the problematic attitude. I'm an OpenJDK author but not linux kernel contributor for mainly this reason. There are many people like me.
> majority of contributors to Linux, an extremely successful free software project, prefer the email-based workflow
This reminds me the many absurd conversations I had from my time in Goldman Sachs, few years ago. People with 15+ year tenures claiming Slang is the best answer to any- and everything. They just didn't know any better and stubbornly stuck to tooling and mindset straight out of 1995.
The internal cloud was just getting up to speed when I left, and that was more modern and also a joy to use.
There's a lot to dislike about working there, but in my experience, the firmwide tooling was excellent.
Windows and Office and AWS and GCP dwarf these foss projects.
There is a reason that Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple don’t use email to collaborate on software.