The article has potential, but the execution is terrible.

I wont go into much, as it's not worth it, but emails are not forever. Anyone who has self-hosted, studied at an institution, or had a work email, is keenly aware of this.

Then the part about accumulating emails. Users were trained to behave like this. It started with Gmail, as a key component of their pitch. Many back then had email with maybe 15Mb storage, so were sure to currate what they saved. Gmail came along and said, forget about all that nonsense. You have so much storage, it's basically unlimited. Plus, stop wasting time tagging and ordering your emails, just use our outstanding search function.

Nice write up. Though that thumbnail bothers me. The screen is the wrong direction.

Contrary to the author’s experience, I, like most people I know, have gone through numerous email addresses but retained the same phone number since getting my first cellphone 25 years ago. That’s the one bit of personal “address” that I truly dread ever having to change, especially as the primary two-factor authentication method used.