I've gone back to Thunderbird and IMAP because of this. Hide text formatting buttons??? Teeny-tiny reply windows? I'm not sure what assumptions they were mak

I've gone back to Thunderbird and IMAP because of this. Hide text formatting buttons??? Teeny-tiny reply windows? I'm not sure what assumptions they were making, but it feels like they want me to use Gmail like it's Twitter. What's next, a "make this conversation public" button? And it will show on my G+ profile?