To clarify, I wasn't arguing that sending email to Gmail is easy especially if you're using an independent provider that is unknown to Google - which is how you

To clarify, I wasn't arguing that sending email to Gmail is easy especially if you're using an independent provider that is unknown to Google - which is how you're framing my response as (why?). I was acknowledging the general issue of dealing with modern email problems and how opaque the underlying systems are.