[xmprt]

The decision to get rid of Inbox smells like a lot of office politics. Someone probably create Inbox as a fun new 20% project and then it took off with a massive customer base that was eating into Gmail's metrics and so they decided to kill it.

[Hurdy]

Literally the opposite is true. Inbox had a huge team (bigger than Gmail) and while it was loved a lot by some, it never gained much traction among the regular Gmail users, and it'd have been impossible to migrate the enormous Gmail customer base over.

[agnivade]

>it never gained much traction among the regular Gmail users,

Do you have any metrics to support that? I haven't met a single person who disliked Inbox.