Ditch the streak, and literally everything else
No one cares about email streaks, this is a needless distraction, I want to turn all of that off immediately. This isn't Snapchat or something where people want to maintain some connection. Needless gamification that literally gets in the way of me doing work. I can't see a choice you've made here in this new interface that I find valuable, and most of it wants to make me claw my eyeballs out.
You've taken up more space with things I don't care about, you've eliminated features I do care about (I like to see previews of my mail so I can recall what I was saving it for!). When you previewed this, I sent feedback saying please do not go down this road and you committed to it whole hog. It's awful.
This is not "you'll get used to it" level of changes. I'm a Yahoo Mail Plus subscriber and all I see from this company is: you don't care about what I want. It's like you don't even use email yourselves. At this point, I am considering emailing all of my contacts and saying, "Hey, I'm over on gmail for good now." I know things don't turn on a dime. You have from me until the end of the year. But I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, and I will move.
Yes, we launched a fun way to reward our users for reading and organizing your emails, but you do not have to participate (not forced). Friendly reminder to always check your Settings. You can disable Streaks by going to the three dots "..." in the left hand navigation and then Your Streaks. Thanks.