I got a notice from Google on changes coming up in G Suite with respect LSAs (Less Secure Apps). Initially I was miffed at it since I thought IMAP access was go

I got a notice from Google on changes coming up in G Suite with respect LSAs (Less Secure Apps). Initially I was miffed at it since I thought IMAP access was going away, but on reading it closely, I understood it as "even less secure protocols like IMAP and others have to be authorized through OAuth (with user consent on information shared), but we will allow the domain administrator to decide whether to continue allowing these apps or not". This seems to be aimed at controlling the information that apps may collect, but I'm not so sure if that's the intent or if that will be really achieved. I agree with your point that if IMAP is broken or deficient, then the industry needs to come up with good alternatives. But it hasn't happened all these years. JMAP still seems to be several years away from widespread adoption, and I don't know enough to say if it's a better replacement for IMAP in all respects to be a stand-in replacement (with email clients changing to support it). I wish Mozilla hadn't made Thunderbird into a community project and had instead stood by it as a steward of industry standards and adoption (and worked with Fastmail on JMAP). I can't think of any large non-profit company working on email. Mozilla still supports Thunderbird in multiple ways, but it's not like how it was before the project was spun off. Companies like Google and Microsoft have strangled email in various ways and are making it tougher for other contributors and players to do much, IMO. I'd love to hear what the JMAP team thinks of these changes that Google is bringing and what it means in general for email.