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> Push notifications, essential for seeing mail "in time", are a proprietary, inconsistent mess.

There isn't any such thing as "in time" for email, and there's no provision for "push notifications". I imagine parent is describing a web UI; webmail interfaces generally poll an IMAP server. Just like my desktop mail client.

> replies that don't involve sending hundreds of pages back and forth

That's not a problem with email; that's a user-education problem. Trim and contextualize.




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