I use a phone just for whatsapp and sometimes take a pic. Computer for everything else

Therefore it’s okay, is that your point? Because I don’t think it is.

> what's the point of "getting in early"?

Ask this to the guy who deliver a pizza for a few bitcoins in the early stage

Me.

Who lied to me?

That does not make sense

You can use pop still, just not to see external emails in gmail web (and you cant use imap either to do that)

The linked page don't say that. Pop will still be supportedand imap was never an option for adding external accounts in gmail webmail

You can't do the same thing with imap.