Improving UI and UX for email is difficult because it's used in such a wide variety of ways by different people (or the same people at different times). Someti

Improving UI and UX for email is difficult because it's used in such a wide variety of ways by different people (or the same people at different times). Sometimes it's social, and replies and photos need a lot of space. Sometimes its a to-do list, where marking and seeing snippets are high priorities. Sometimes its a filter for everything incoming, where quick scanning and sorting are high priorities. Trying to do all of these effectively within the the same UI is not possible, so it looks like Google is pushing for the social path as the one it wants to target