[cmcaleer]

It is frankly ridiculous how unintuitive it was to add an email account to Mail on iOS. This is possibly the most basic functionality I would expect an email client to have. One would expect that they go to their list of mailboxes and add a new account.

No. You exit the mail app -> Go to settings -> apps -> scroll through a massive list (that you usually just use for notification settings btw) to go to mail -> mail accounts -> add new account.

Just a simple six-step process after you’ve already hunted for it in the mail app.

[jrmg]

There’s an “Accounts...” entry in the main “Mail” menu.

You can also click the “+” button at the bottom of the list of accounts in the “Accounts” panel in Mail's settings window.

[ant6n]

I think the most most basic integration w.r.t. email I want from Apple is that I want to set up another email program besides “Mail” as the default email program, but without having to set up Mail first.

[isaachinman]

One of many reasons that drove me to create what Apple Mail _should_ have been ten years ago:

https://marcoapp.io