"Classic" Outlook has gone to hell in the last decade, too. Outlook 2010 was "peak Outlook". It was fast and worked well. Armed with "Advanced Find" and a large

"Classic" Outlook has gone to hell in the last decade, too. Outlook 2010 was "peak Outlook". It was fast and worked well. Armed with "Advanced Find" and a large but poorly organized mailbox I could find what I needed quickly and efficiently. The whole "de-emphasizing" of the Advanced Find feature and moving to that god-awful unified search box was emblematic, to me, that the adult supervision had departed the product team. I enjoyed making MAPI forms to do automation in my office, back in the day. MAPI and custom forms never reached the level of Lotus Notes application development. This was, arguably, because Notes was actually a general solution that just happened have an email client implemented in it. Outlook was an evolution of the old "Exchange" / Microsoft Mail paradigm and was really a mail client at its heart.