[cantagi]

After the new interface was brought out, I found that the most jarring thing was how the left-hand-side menu collapsed down left to a set of meaningless icons, then when you hovered over it, it expanded right to cover important details of the actual emails.

Either I disabled it using some obscure setting or Google fixed it within a few days. I wonder if they knew people weren't going to like the update, and intentionally added temporary extra annoyances with the goal of acclimatizing users to the smaller and more profitable annoyance of the "AI" autocomplete and autorespond. The cynicism comes from having been a Facebook user.

EDIT: typos

[sephware]

I immediately disabled the “smart completion”. It was wrong 100% of the time so far, and it’s just going to ruin my train of thought, or worse, train me to say what it thinks I should say.