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They're failing, and hilariously so. The Gmail GUI is awful, it's slow (especially on non-chrome browsers), you're still being tracked (nothing new but still worth mentioning) and manipulated. And worse, the slowness thing was done for (allegedly) anti-competitive reasons.

Then there's android and chrome: the new material design style is something you need to be a little brainwashed to really like, as a lot of space is simply wasted on eye-searing white backgrounds.

And finally, let's talk about search, Google’s raison d'etre. It's consistently dropped in quality. For example, a number of years ago I'd never even think about going to page 2 or even 3, or even going to another search engine. But now it's par for the course, since page 1 is just chock full of garbage e.g. advertisements (nothing new, but still) and links that don't even come close to providing the answer to my question.

Quite frankly, properly justifying staying with Google is starting to get seriously difficult.