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Most people don't need 3rd party clients and just use the web interface or wtv is the native app for the product they are using. Using thunderbird or K9 clients for example is a fringe use case for most people anyway.
I'm not sure I would call using a third-party email client a 'fringe' use case. As of yesterday, Thunderbird has 10,992,366 active daily installations. Sure, it's probably not as many as mobile clients, but that's still a helluva lot of people using it.
Yeah, only nutty fringe dwellers would want to use an email client to manage their email. /s