"Anyone who’s given Gmail a fair shake will quickly find conversations indispensable. Going back to any other email client is agonizing and disorienting," No.

"Anyone who’s given Gmail a fair shake will quickly find conversations indispensable. Going back to any other email client is agonizing and disorienting," No. It really depends. At work, where for me a thread might last for weeks and have 5-10 participants, the only thing that makes any sense is a hierarchical threaded view where you can see who replied to what (I use Claws Mail). Gmail conversations cannot contextually distinguish where the tangents are that you must treat as new sub-threads (you cannot just say "rename the subject" because that is not what people do in real life). (I've been using both claws and gmail for 5+ years)