I completely agree, I found inbox a little while ago and it's amazing. It's cut my time spent on emails by a factor of 10, and I love the inbuilt reminder system.
There are a few minor annoyances but the massive time savings are well worth dealing with them.
This article seems to be full of baseless claims with no proof, I agree with others, looks to just be a product ad. If they knew who he was, and he had committed any offenses he would have already been arrested.
A lot of modern desktop apps these days tend to run in electron or similar and require the overhead of large libraries/components (chromium for electron).
A lot the bloat seems to come unnecessary duplication of resources, but since storage space and bandwidth is no longer as much of a premium I don't think it's much of an issue anymore.
My first overseas solo trip was to Thailand, and I had so much awesome street food, guess they are trying to change the perception of Bangkok. I wonder what will happen to khaosan? If they killed the street they would be losing a lot tourism money since it's pretty much regarded as the most popular backpacker street in asia/the world.
I'm going to learn it as well, a fair few jobs seems to note Docker as a requirement, or suggestion. I've never used containers before, so it should be fun.