I haven't used the Gmail UI in almost a decade now; I connect using my own email client. But this sounds terrible. I think the incentives at Google haven't changed. Engineers want promotions and in many teams how you achieve that is through pushing features with tons of user engagement. The features tend to include few options to opt out.

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dude250711 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Did you mean investor engagement perhaps? Or some promotion committee engagement? AI is Google+ 2.0.

	▲	phyzix5761 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No I meant the internal culture at these big tech companies is to push out features that get mass adoption in order to get promoted. If you push out a feature that is hard to turn off and is forced on 100% of users then you're on your way to that goal.