I never thought the intention was people actually look in the promotions or social tab, so it's odd here it's being viewed as a way to keep people in Gmail.
To me it felt like a way to quarantine the Facebooks and linkedins of the world which email you every time a contact sneezed, or the stores that opt you into promotional emails in a way that doesn't shame those companies enough into trying to bypass it or complaining about anti-competitive behaviour if they got rightfully classed as spammers.
To me it felt like a way to quarantine the Facebooks and linkedins of the world which email you every time a contact sneezed, or the stores that opt you into promotional emails in a way that doesn't shame those companies enough into trying to bypass it or complaining about anti-competitive behaviour if they got rightfully classed as spammers.