The new Thunderbird is bad, at first sight.

For one, I see no emails what-so-ever. I have no idea how to fix this.... It works to send and receive emails tho....so that's a total mystery. I also have no clue where to report this to Thunderbird...

I don't understand the big deal with the new UI. My Thunderbird looked almost identical. Simple, clean. Unified folders and all that. Now it is worse because the app does not respect me and my system.

I have a different theme/accent color for my system....but Thunderbird downgrades its release to not work well with the system it seems.

Also, a massive topbar with a huge search bar that makes it more difficult to grab the window and move it around. Plus why 2 search bars? Isn't the "filter messages" bar enough?

And of course the annoying GTK4 topbar that won't let me use the XFCE features like rolling up the window or maximize it to the topbar to save space...

Idk what's up with the people who think that improvements always should bring less features, less customization options, less compatibility with the system.... If anything Thunderbird should have made it more compatible with the system, like allow me to use the HUD and search through the menu like I can with 90% of all apps.

Overall a bad experience and now I have to get my emails back somehow.....

I start to hate more and more the Gnomes. They are the apple-fan-boys of Linux, thinking of how great it is to make everything more simplistic and unusable and geared to only the Gnome world. Linux is going to lose more of its uniqueness, defaulting to 1 theme and 5 accent colors, and 1 desktop environment, Gnome. And the rest will still be around, but small, and butchered by the GTK4 and such decisions, making the Gnome apps look like weeds in a field, not matching anything on other desktops and not working well on other desktops.