[pferde]

I kind of get what you are saying - there are lot of things we should not be caring about and let automation take care of. But in my opinion, what is and is not important to someone is something deeply personal, and I find it scary that someone would want to relinquish control particularly over that.

I see it as "can someone tie my shoelaces for me please?" level of non-responsibility. And it scares me.

[Gigablah]

The important question here is — why do we still put up with the archaic busywork of tying shoelaces?

I loved driving stick shift, but I’m not sorry to see it go either.

[salvar]

Surely that's a cynical interpretation of "important"? We've seen examples in this thread where important can mean "not spam" or "not random newsletter", yet you hold on to the one meaning where users are asking for their shoelaces to be tied for them because they are so irresponsible.

[joshuamorton]

To provide another perspective: I don't think I've ever received an email where an incorrect categorization is more than a mild inconvenience. From my perspective, it's relinquishing control over a triviality. Categorizing things that in the grand scheme are all unimportant anyway.