Doing some research: What's the most annoying part of your email routine?

Hey guys, solopreneur/dev here. I’m trying to map out the biggest bottleneck in daily email triage to see if it’s worth building an automation tool for it.

If you had to pick one thing that ruins your productivity when you open your inbox, what is it?

Spending time writing polite rejections to cold sales pitches?

Fearing you'll click a highly sophisticated AI phishing scam?

Missing important client threads because they get buried in the noise?

Fighting with Gmail/Outlook's automated filters?

If anyone is open to a 2-minute chat here in the comments or DMs to share their workflow pain, I’d highly appreciate it. No sales pitch, just trying to validate a problem.