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Email is quite a bit safer than people think, especially if you host your own. Typically it is encrypted from point to point, so if a company emails me it goes through their internal system to their gateway, is encrypted using SSL and transmitted directly to my server where it's stored until I connect over an SSL encrypted link to download my mail
Even an ISP will have almost everything encrypted as it really is the default now
There's practically no chance for a man in the middle attack
I do accept unencrypted mail but nothing arrives on port 25 (unencrypted email) except scam attempts to get spam forwarded (which are denied)
Many do not run their own email server. It is just too hard. Companies choose Microsoft or Gmail to host email as it is cheap for them or included in something like office 365. Google have admitted that they read users' email in search for custom advertisement. I would assume the same is true for Microsoft. On the inside we just have to trust them that they don't make too many copies to foreign power or abuse it in any other way.
On the private side(not companies), Gmail really dominate. Very many don't even know what selfhosting is and even fewer have the know-how and actually do it for email. People just don't want that burden of selfhosting, maintenance, work. I would love the world to get more decentralized, use peer to peer, but today everything is more centralized than ever before.
Email should be E2EE, but that is never going to happen without the big players on that train - they just have too huge market share and that would go against their profitability.