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The wonderful answer is that it isn't!

Browsers can't, and absolutely shouldn't, do everything.

I agree with your point, but disagree in that it should be easy to check your email. The web is the natural solution to this.

But there are basically doing everything now? And it works for the vast majority of people

Everything? Of course not. Display some images and text from a server? That seems like a perfect use case for a browser.

There are open source web mail clients if you want though - I vaguely remember rainloop (https://www.rainloop.net/) and roundcube (https://roundcube.net/) being ones I looked at back in the day.

Your email can be saved as html and viewable in all browsers.

If you are asking if you can login to a webpage you want webmail: horde, squirrelmail, roundcube.. rainloop looks like gmail, Zimbra, mailspring (has undo send), Cypht, mailpile...

Thanks for all these options. That gives me another topic I can dive in to over the weekend.