hot take: grumpy techies and admins killed email already 20 years ago. They were so intent on fighting html mail, top posting, and other perceived abhorrations

hot take: grumpy techies and admins killed email already 20 years ago. They were so intent on fighting html mail, top posting, and other perceived abhorrations that they forgot to make sure that it actually stayed alive, evolving viable platform for development. There were all sorts of cultural issues that made it so that there wasn't any major active promoters/evangelists/advocates for email pushing it forward, and so it has been rotting away for the past decades.