I still think notmuch is a great backend, but a poor client. Despite using mu4e, I still find Gnus superior in terms of pure reading efficiency (I still use Gnu

I still think notmuch is a great backend, but a poor client. Despite using mu4e, I still find Gnus superior in terms of pure reading efficiency (I still use Gnus regularly with gmane). Scoring and thread handling is just superior. There's a lot to gain from adaptive scoring alone. In fact, I also switched over mu4e after trying a search backend for Gnus, and I've been oscillating from mutt/gnus/mu4e a lot over more than a decade. Tagging is powerful, but I find it too constrained as a single tool to manage everything.