[yoyopa]

how is smart compose useful? maybe if you never learned how to touch type. or if you want to sound like the most generic person possible.

[4khilles]

It's useful because it saves me time and effort when writing emails.

I know how to touch type.

Most of my email responses are pretty generic, I'm not writing any haikus. Should I be?

[yoyopa]

i just find it awful and distracting. i have to consider what google is suggesting and whether i agree with the tonality and relevance rather than freely expressing what i want to say.

[peter-m80]

I write lots of emails in english and I'm not a native english speaker. Having a smart email completion thing saves me lots of time. US is not the center of the universe

[emerged]

It helps give Google an excuse to comb through all of your personal emails and put the data into a machine learning model.

They already have excuses for that, but this one justifies a bit more.