> I don't read that. Where do you see a backwards justification?

Most of the improvements he cited in his life were either unrelated to Google or things that he could have turned off in Gmail.

He complains about Gmail sorting his e-mail, but that's a feature he turned on. He could have just turned it off.

He complains about his inbox being polluted from putting his e-mail address into everything, but his new account doesn't have anything signed up yet. That's not a Google problem, that's an e-mail address problem.

He says that he's getting in the habit of skipping search engines and going straight to IMDB or Wikipedia or Reddit, but again that has nothing to do with Google specifically.