Thank god. However, the G+ debacle was a wake up call to the fact that at any point the use of my good ol' email account and search page could become an absolutely complicated mess, and completely out of my control.
Makes me glad in retrospect I never switched over to gmail. My email experience hasn't changed in a decade but it still works just fine and I never have to worry that some megacorporation is going to arbitrarily change it out from under me in order to better pursue their corporate goals.
