Critical functionality lost

Update February 2018
Phone number & address hyperlinks function again!

Update July 2017
Recent updates lost short-lived ability to dial phone numbers directly from email message. Back to tedious copy-paste-call.

The reply suggestions are interesting though. Saves about 10 seconds but Im not sure how I feel knowing that google is parsing and understanding all of my email content.

Update. All of a sudden, I can now edit text in forwarded messages...I had not updated the app, this functionality just appeared on its own...just like in googles map app the nearby traffic widget just stopped working on its own one day. Curious.

Signatures still are not tying into my web gmail settings and are completely unusable for aliases and HTML formatted signatures...which I need for my business use. At least give this functionality to your paying customers!

Also realizing how much I miss the reply & forward buttons at the top of the screen in gmail 4.x.

Many improvements in gmail 5.x but they do not make up for lost features.

Original review:

BEWARE. gmail 5.x is simply rebranded inbox and lacks the same critical features, namely:

-horrendous signature handling. No HTML signatures. No alias specific signatures.

(fixed)-message forwarding limitations. Cannot edit forwarded message.

Theres a longer list of reasons I hadnt switched from gmail 4.x to inbox but those are more preferences as opposed to critical requirements to do my work.

The 5.x search improvement is nice but irrelevant since I can no longer use the gmail app for work so Im now searching for a new mail app for the first time since a native gmail app was introduced.

Disappointed.

Alpesh P about Gmail - Email by Google, v5.0.180121