As someone old enough to remember early 90s email, before wave after wave of noise and the myriad “solutions”, I find it hard to accept that we can’t do better

As someone old enough to remember early 90s email, before wave after wave of noise and the myriad “solutions”, I find it hard to accept that we can’t do better and somehow discover email 2.0. Especially now there are so many other commonly used services/protocols for things that are “not email”. I can’t help but think that somehow recipient identify and preferences could form a part of it.