"The problem is, hosting your own email is actually really hard. Not only much harder to set up than it should be... " This is the very crux of the problem. W

"The problem is, hosting your own email is actually really hard. Not only much harder to set up than it should be... " This is the very crux of the problem. We need newer protocols so this is dead easy for anyone to do but I don't see it happening anytime soon. As Google and other Big Tech are on internet standards bodies they'd almost certainty oppose it as a more distributed internet would be bad if not ultimately devastating for their businesses. Unfortunately, we naively let the Trojan horse into the internet years ago now we're paying a terrible penalty for our foolhardiness.