Ask HN: Now that Inbox is officially dead, what email client should I use?

Forget about it. Use Thunderbird with IMAP.

I'm trying these: Spark and Spike email

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/google-inbox-is-dead-but-you-can...

Outlook!! Feels fresh and works well. Also categorises mails into Focus and Others depending. Find it really useful on phone. Prefer default Gmail website on Desktop.

I don’t understand “stresses me out with the deluge of emails”. If you’re getting tons of emails that you don’t need or want, take a minute and unsubscribe from those mailing lists. If not, set up filters to do whatever with those kinds of emails. Idk I guess I’ve always been pretty organized when it comes to emails. Appending my email for each service or site I sign up for etc.

Anyway I just use the stock mail app on my phone.

I just received a newsletter that had an ad for https://frontapp.com/.

(They say they are "The #1 alternative to Google inbox".)

Haven't tried them though.

I use Gnus. One of its nicer feature is scoring, where every message gets a score and then only high-scoring messages are shown until you ask for the low-scoring ones.

Maybe it's a sign that you need to move away from Google at least Gmail?