> I can only hope that was a sardonic moment of frustration quoted out of context
I didn't make my point clearly there, and I think it makes more sense in context, but it was a sincere suggestion that Apple could stop allowing new people to use Hide My Email. There are many other email aliasing services, so they wouldn't be depriving people of a unique offering. At the time, I wasn't aware that Hide My Email was only available as part of iCloud+. All I knew was that it wasn't free.