>Too bad it seems that email's best days are over now, as email nowadays is mostly for notifications.
Email is still heavily used for business-to-business communication between humans. Talking about business matters is still more natural via email until the participants know each other well enough to switch to texting.
But yes, for personal communication, friends & family have shifted from email to phone texts. E.g. my friend who graduated from college in 1990s used to communicate with his parents with 100% email but now it's 100% text messaging. Email is too much friction for personal comms.
Any sources on that? I’m guessing the 90% is hyperbole, but I still wonder how much spam the average user actually gets. (For me, close to absolute zero)
It has taken me over a year to wrangle my inbox into shape (unsubscribing from all marketing email that isn't spam/gets through google's spam filter) and I would say anecdotally that my incoming email has decreased by at least 90%. I go multiple days without receiving emails now.
Pretty much every company/service out there opts you into spam unless you proactively opt-out of it (which takes effort and knowledge to work around the dark patterns).
Looking at my password manager I've got ~260 logins right now and keep in mind that I don't do social media and try to avoid creating accounts as much as possible (and delete the ones I don't use for a long time), so the average user is likely to have a lot more accounts.
Even if each one of these companies only spammed once a week (most will do more frequently if you let them), that'll already significantly outnumber the amount of legitimate e-mail I receive.
