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"If the new inbox isn't quite your style, you can simply switch off all optional tabs to go back to classic view, or switch to any of your other favorite inbox types."

If this new Gmail feature doesn't suit you, you can TURN IT OFF.

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To be fair, that would be an advantage this feature has over ALL THE OTHER OBNOXIOUS FEATURES they've done to mangle the layout over the past N years - features that you could postpone but not avoid. cough New Compose coughcough

Problem is, if it's anything like usual Google features, it follows a common path:

New feature announced --> Deployed to @gmail users -- Deployed to Apps users --> Old feature deprecated --> old feature removed

Google has a feature of eventually forcing people onto bad UI layouts.. for example Youtube.

But you still stick to it, so it doesn't show up in numbers to them - otherwise they'll change it back to what more people liked - or may be it already is that way?

Most of my (and I imagine a good chunk of this site's readership) access to GMail is handled through IMAP, for one.

For two, I struggle to think of a UI cockup of an email app on the level required to drive people to switch ecosystems.

"Most of my (and I imagine a good chunk of this site's readership) access to GMail is handled through IMAP, for one."

Data? Projecting much, aren't you? My anecdotal evidence contradicts yours.

Hence the "I imagine". I am allowed conjecture as I wish.

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