[viceroyalbean]

As someone with an inbox-zero obsession, I don't pretend to have any logical justification for it, I just really don't like seeing those unread markers. Same for any app that shows any kind of "look here" marker.

For my personal email, inbox-zero generally means actually reading most emails I get, because I aggressively unsubscribe/mark spam/auto-delete emails I don't want to get. My work email gets a lot more emails I don't need to look at, so there is a lot of automatic filtering and "mark all as read".

My main practical use-case is that I will leave emails unread intentionally if I can't deal with them at the moment. If I had thousands (or even dozens) of unread emails I'd have to track those separately.