Experienced cognitive dissonance when I tried to find out how to make reply full screen so I could bullet point.
I need a better mail platform. DIY maybe?
I have my e-mail on a bunch of distributed business cards. I could forward from Gmail to my new address.
That is one of my biggest grievances with the new Gmail UI as well. But there are so many other annoyances and so many little things that just don't work, I'm surprised that they pushed it out at all, let alone imposed it on everybody. It's a usability train wreck.
Even though it would be a major pain to switch, I'm seriously thinking about it.
Told all the people I could think of that my email address has changed, then diverted my Gmail to my new email to catch any stragglers for a while, which I tell when I notice a diverted mail.
Do you happen to know if they support "undo send"? i.e. where you can configure a 30-second delay before the email is actually sent, so if you think of something right after you hit 'send' you can edit it. That happens to me a lot, so I like that feature.
I've also heard good things about Airmail (http://airmailapp.com/).