You would probably be better served by fixing your damaged relationship with the techology rather than declaring it to be the wrong answer a priori. Perhaps a

You would probably be better served by fixing your damaged relationship with the techology rather than declaring it to be the wrong answer a priori. Perhaps a middle ground, like Thunderbird or Vivaldi's RSS readers, would suit you. Don't use the clients for mail, just try it out as a feed reader only, to avoid the negative expectations. One of the big advantage of the mail-style presentation is the client indexes the content and gives you full-text search of the stories you've read. Once you get used to that it's hard to go back.