The new update on OUTLOOK mail, is terrible

It's now December and the Outlook app that comes with Office365 is still awful. I wish I could go back to the old Outlook, but I had to switch because my telus (gmail) accounts no longer worked with the old Outlook. Here are some of the essentials that have been ripped away:

• I can no longer drag an email to the calendar to create an appointment.
• I can no longer drag an email to the task list to create a task.
• I cannot add more than 4 email accounts.
• There is no longer a universal contact list for all accounts. (I am an individual user, not a member of an organization with and Exchange server). I have to create an individual contact list for each account and there is no easy way to automatically sync them. (And yet there appears to be a universal contact list for Outlook on my phone which I can use for all accounts. But maybe that's an Android or a Samsung thing).
• The Task icon opens the task list in the browser rather than the Task app on my Windows 11 PC.
• I cannot move an email to a folder in another email account like I used to do.
• All received emails in all accounts show "To: You" rather than showing the receiving email account name.
• If I read an email, the highlighting goes away, But then the next time I go into Outlook, all my emails are highlighted again meaning unread.
• I put the inbox for each account in the favorites list and the combined inbox disappeared and I can't find a way to get it back.
• I cannot specify what fields I want to see in the email list other than the limited number of settings in the Settings tool.
• The options for calendar and task reminders are too limited. For example, I cannot set a reminder for a day ahead and then reset it to remind me every 12 hours, or 8 hours or 4 hours, ..., every 30 minutes so that I don't forget important appointments or tasks when I am immersed in what I am doing.
• The "Help" is useless. It keeps bringing up instructions for the old Outlook or for web Outlook.
• Support is useless. They can do nothing except to say, "It depends on the settings in web Outlook" or "the developers did not develop it that way".

I keep asking myself why I am paying for this! I use Word, Excel and Powerpoint for some volunteer work and OneDrive to backup photos and documents. It's a daunting task to move everything to other apps, but I'm thinking about it!

The Homer Edition made me laugh and I agree! I was looking for the number of messages in my Inbox this morning and I was astounded that they took that away. Whoever designed this must be a full-time programmer who does not support the app or customers who use the app.

There's the part I really don't understand about this: Microsoft's continued insistence that this is all entirely optional. I guess that can be argued, but only in the sense that one has the option of whether or not to use Outlook in the first place. The truth is, they've changed their interface, we've no choice anymore, and they're betting that we'll get used to it before a better alternative emerges. I'd respect them more if they'd just say that instead of insulting our intelligence.

"There will be no forcing of anything."

Oh yes there is.
I just got a message "A newer version of outlook is required to continue".
And the new (appalling) version was opened for me.
It looks like it was designed with a crayon, honestly "iconic literacy" is all very well for removing some internationalization issue, but this just looks childish.

First off it reordered all my folders, back to alphabetical.
So it had to go, as there is no way to reorder folders in the new UI.

Well that meant...
Close New outlook window.
Uninstall the New outlook app.
Find the old app.
Pin it to the taskbar.

I fully expect at some point we'll have no choice.

This is Microsoft being Microsoft. I was criticized earlier in this thread for saying that MS was going to strong arm folks into using this glitzy piece of junk. The only hope is for MS to have a New Coke moment, and admit their mistake, and can the New Outlook.

One of my sons-in-law is an IT professional at a large NYC company, and he tells me in meetings with MS IT professionals are telling them the new Outlook is horrible. He said that there is one technical area in which it is superior, but that in every other way it’s a piece of thrash.