They have a webmail interface on icloud.com. It's probably not as "good" as Gmail - fewer features (is that worse?) but then similar to Gmail you can use any we

They have a webmail interface on icloud.com. It's probably not as "good" as Gmail - fewer features (is that worse?) but then similar to Gmail you can use any web client you want. Hell can't you sign in to your icloud email on Gmail and still use Gmail if you wanted?