[timlatim]

Glad to see I'm not the only one missing Google Inbox! I don't believe it was widely popular, at the time I may have been the only one in my circle to use it, but for me its workflow was just perfect. It gave you a clutter-free mailbox that surfaced the right things at the right time with very little manual fiddling, something I never managed to replicate with Gmail since.

The article might be overstating things, "hate" is strong word and not everyone outside the US shares the political reasons, but having a Google service you like end up axed is an experience more and more people can relate to. From Reader, to Inbox, to Play Music, to countless others, the company is oddly insistent on breaking things that just work and offering a subpar replacement (if one at all) that inevitably loses your data or requires manual transfer to fit how the other service is designed to work.