I believe it still does make a difference. Email has transformed greatly in the past 10+ years. What has primarily been a communication medium has now become a

I believe it still does make a difference. Email has transformed greatly in the past 10+ years. What has primarily been a communication medium has now become a key to our online identities. As our online identities gain further importance in real life, it is critical more than ever that we protect our email accounts both technically and legally. The technical aspect has been improving with more emails encrypted in transit using TLS, so email being inherently unsafe is only half true. We also need to care about the legal aspect too, and it makes sense to avoid email providers operating in countries without legal protection for users.