I like it, too, and the amount of hate it receives baffles me. I like the fact that the message-compose window does not stretch across my whole screen - my lapt

I like it, too, and the amount of hate it receives baffles me. I like the fact that the message-compose window does not stretch across my whole screen - my laptop screen is quite wide. I don't want anything to stretch all the way across. I have no problem replying inline, I very rarely ever change the font of an email, and I very rarely change the subject. I don't do these things very often, so I would prefer that they're hidden. I also use GMail mostly for personal emails, not professionally. I wonder if that's part of it. But, even then, I use Notes for professional emails, because I have to. The GMail changes work well for how I use it, but there's also the fact that I constantly compare it to Notes.