Gmail UI is awful

Yesterday, I wrote about how I’m fed up having AI everywhere. That’s also the case in work’s email. We use Gmail for work 🤯. Here’s a screenshot of one email thread: Gmail UI - 2026 What’s wrong here? At the top, AI overview… I don’t really need you to summarise it. Even if it wasn’t enough that Google read all emails, now even Gemini does it. Do they scan each email twice? Yesterday, I tried to switch to a plain text email configuration, but I couldn’t find it. Writing an email in plain text is doable, but having all of them is tricky, if not impossible. First thing I’ve done is to remove in the settings the “Email threading” Conversation view which is awful. I dont know who worked on this, but they fucked it up pretty badly. Then at the bottom of the image you have all those “…” message that can be opened. But, they never look like in the right order. Maybe there is an option somewhere, but I just don’t want to waste my time on this. Also, you have the number 9 between two messages.…