what? it's supported IMAP IDLE for longer than some of the posters in HN have been alive.

> I'd kinda hope regulators would step in on something like that for a case like Gmail where they're practically the default email provider for most people.

... you chose to use some random company's domain for your email address, that's been an obvious problem for thirty years now.

there's jillions of things to criticise google about, this is absolutely not one of them.