EFF sent out a campaign to their mailing list this morning about how banning it is a bad move for free speech and a better option would be to create actual data privacy laws that companies have to follow to do business in the US, but of course that would just put more money in politicians pockets to ensure it never sees the light of day.
(New) disabled all my inbox rules and since you can't create new rules in the OWA irom what I could see, there was basically no management. Glad I moved my personal stuff to Proton before they kill the standard Outlook app entirely
It takes like 2 minutes to make it so you don't need to use a microsoft account to log in to Windows. It's annoying that it has to be done but it can be done.
Maybe look into Hushed. I know they advertise having UK numbers. It's a similar service but I don't think they have a desktop client