"Email is dying" - one of those statements folks keep making while the number of email messages sent/received each year continues to grow. There's a lot wrong w

"Email is dying" - one of those statements folks keep making while the number of email messages sent/received each year continues to grow. There's a lot wrong with email protocols (it's still stupidly easy to craft very convincing phishing emails, and most junk filters are dangerously bad), but what's the alternative for the most common use cases? There's no other protocol where you can just hand over or publish your address in order to receive important/ structured/persistent information from another party. It doesn't require signing up to some single proprietary messaging platform and the fact it's existed for 50 years gives reasonable confidence it will still be around in another 50.