GMAIL Compose - A rant against the totalitarianism of software developers

Signing on my my GMAIL yesterday, I was alerted to the new COMPOSE feature. Today the evil genius produced the new RESPOND feature.  These are not useful and not an option.  How I HATE it when software developmers impose "upgrades" on me that I didn't request, don't want and make life more difficult.  "Upgrades should be an option, not an imposition of a disembodied, uncaring, unresponsive big brother or big sister.