As much as i dislike Teams (and other Microsoft products), i have to say that the most recent version of Outlook (on desktop) is actually not bad. I've also heard folks speak highly of outlook web, but i rarely use it. Given the choice, I still prefer Thunderbird personally (on linux). But for many folks - especially lay people who happen to use Windows - i just recommend desktop outlook (and remind them to make sure they keep up with their system updates and MS Defender and other such security updates), and then call it a day.

Not sure why Outlook gets hate - its pretty powerful with its rules engine and has keyboard shortcuts for everything.

Can only assume you are on Mac where Outlook is a fisher price knockoff for some reason.

Outlook at least offers good performance. The ui could be better. On the other hand teams takes more resources than excel, my ide and browser with 100 tabs.

Last i used outlook on mac/windows feels native and fast

Outlook on Mac overrides Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E to not go to the beginning or end of the line. It's not serious software.

Yes, but the outlook web version is quite usable

And Windows