Some crappy product manager found some agreeable "tech enthusiasts" and/or worded their research questions in such a way that made it seem like this would be a net positive to the sales/profit of the product.
The engineers who had to design this terrible product were probably making jokes about it all the time.
I don't see how this could be worse than the current Gmail search. I have to use the sync tool to Outlook for my work email because outlook's search is so much better.
Vivaldi if you really need a Chromium based browser.
Much business oriented software just hasn't had the work done on it to work on Wine. Really the only reason I have to run Windows now is the 3D CAD software I use and my best option at this point is running it in a Windows VM on my server. And no Freecad and Fusion360 aren't suitable options, they both suck.
Spotify Connect is a feature I use extensively that nobody else even comes close to doing as well (even though the Spotify implementation leaves much to be desired). Why does nobody else support controlling the player on my PC from another computer?
Obsessive apologizing makes a person appear not confident in themselves. If it is a person I care about I want them to be confident in themselves.
Additionally the more you repeat something the less meaning it has. So if someone apologizes too much for things that really don't necessitate an apology when they have something they genuinely need to show remorse for and apologize for the apology holds less meaning.