> the problem manifests itself for people sending legitimate emails from legitimate email accounts to a Google account

It's funny to me that people in this thread are complaining about Google being large enough to serve as a de-facto authority, when the only way one could solve a "legitimate emails are being blocked" problem is to have a definition of 'legitimate' that would come from... an authority.

Google is dropping the ball but I don't know what the solution would look like that isn't just "Someone else be Google now." ;)