[keevie]

I've had the opposite experience. To delete all emails from a given contact....search for from:contact, select all, delete. Idk how that could be more intuitive?

[wodenokoto]

More intuitive would be not having to know the command. Is it still "from" if my gmail is set to German or French?

Anyway, I do think google solved this in to ways: type contact and from:contact is suggested

If you rest the curser over a contact name, a box with an option to see all conversation appear.