Form over function, and bad form at that.

The Gmail app used to be pretty good. Not amazing, but it was clean and did everything you would expect it to. After the new update, the entire interface is a mess and there is zero sense of functionality left. For example, there are no checkboxes next to emails. To select something, you must first press and hold it to perform an action. If you want to empty your Trash folder, you must first wait several seconds for the words "Empty Trash" to pop down on their own from the top of the screen. Instead of just having a button already there. The left side of the screen, which has all your folders, is now large, cluttered, and in the way. I constantly have to scroll up to get to my inbox. And everything has an icon instead of being a simple list. I could go on, but all in all, this UI overhaul turns every simple task into an annoying chore.

Rambo1965 about Gmail - Email by Google, v5.0.6