Inbox has got to be the single most useful productivity tool for me. Pinning, bundling, and snoozing just make managing emails so quick and efficient since you can easily triage and get rid of what doesn't matter, and Gmail as it currently stands just can't compete.
If bundling and pinning aren't brought over to Gmail like snooze, Gmail is basically dead to me from an efficiency perspective since manually selecting what you want to remove takes significantly longer than pinning and sweeping in Inbox.
Worse still, there's the opposite problem if we wanted to build an Inbox successor on top of Gmail since while bundling and pinning would be easily implemented by the client, snooze is still not part of the Gmail API[1] so there would need to be a completely separate layer of snoozing in the client.
Honestly, if a competitor were to rise and implement Inbox's feature set, my money is on the table.
If bundling and pinning aren't brought over to Gmail like snooze, Gmail is basically dead to me from an efficiency perspective since manually selecting what you want to remove takes significantly longer than pinning and sweeping in Inbox.
Worse still, there's the opposite problem if we wanted to build an Inbox successor on top of Gmail since while bundling and pinning would be easily implemented by the client, snooze is still not part of the Gmail API[1] so there would need to be a completely separate layer of snoozing in the client.
Honestly, if a competitor were to rise and implement Inbox's feature set, my money is on the table.
[1] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/109952618