The thing that is confusing here is you used to have to turn on less secure apps to use app passwords, and the article says that's getting removed for personal

The thing that is confusing here is you used to have to turn on less secure apps to use app passwords, and the article says that's getting removed for personal accounts. So while they don't say that they're removing IMAP via app passwords for personal accounts, there's a concern they might be effectively removing them it