"We got by" is a bad argument. Once email was in wide use by the general public, easy formatting was inevitable. HTML was everywhere, and so was the path of le

"We got by" is a bad argument. Once email was in wide use by the general public, easy formatting was inevitable. HTML was everywhere, and so was the path of least resistance. I thought it awful at the time, but "at the time" was literally more than two decades ago. HTML email is fine. MOST mail I get, professionally, has some formatting in it now. MOST mail I send probably does, too, to increase what a mentor of mine used to call "scan value." Could I put all that in a Word doc and email THAT instead? Sure. But that would be a huge pain in the ass.