This is horrible. As someone who started using a PC in the early nineties, GMail's Basic HTML view was the only way to get a decent information density without

This is horrible. As someone who started using a PC in the early nineties, GMail's Basic HTML view was the only way to get a decent information density without wasting 75% of the screen real estate with whitespace. But I was expecting this move sooner or later -- time to return to an external application as if it were year 2000, I suppose.