[jjav]

> With effort it can be tamed. Filters and so on.

Yes, that is the key.

Beauty of email is that it can be done because it's all open protocols.

I've been dragged into a signal channel and that's one untamable firehose. Sequential stream of messages via proprietary UI so there is nothing I can do to automatically file messaged into various folders. Nothing I can do to auto-process certain messages, nothing I can do to mark some things read and some unread, etc..

Email allows for infinite flexibility in configuring it just how you need to work best.

If you have just one inbox and everything lands there all the time, I can see how that's a firehose that's not going to be pleasant. But with email the tools exist to customize this away.