I've long been convinced that Big Tech wants email to go away because it's neither fashionable nor particularly profitable. Gmail was famously somebody's "10%

I've long been convinced that Big Tech wants email to go away because it's neither fashionable nor particularly profitable. Gmail was famously somebody's "10% project", after all, and not a real product initiative. Now that the era of free money appears to be over I'd not be surprised if I was reading a blog post about an "incredible journey" at Gmail within the decade. While I think that everyone hosting their own email is the ideal, it's not really feasible on today's Internet. I content myself with fastmail. They're big enough I'm not worried about them dying any time soon.