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> but I realized that email is inherently insecure

I've always seen Proton benefits as a moot point because it's not E2E to the other side. You can encrypt all you want but as soon as you actually communicate with anyone (this is the email after all) you are now give all your messages to a third party often times without any encryption at all.

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I do at least appreciate that emails from one Proton account to another Proton account are secured by default. It has made it much easier for me on the few occasions I've needed to send someone something securely but haven't wanted to walk them through setting up PGP. "Create a free Proton account" is a much easier process.

The recipient of the email is definitionally not "third party".

The recipient's email service provider seems to be the "third party" at issue here.

Your second party isn't the recipient but just another MTA on the way.

There are a lot of things what can leak your correspondence as is before it would land in someone's mailbox.

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