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Not true. 90% of the emails I get from real people are plain-text. 100% of the emails I get from businesses are HTML. It makes it quick and easy to sort out a lot of the garbage.

That's weird. I'd say 90% of the emails I get from real people are from gmail which are 100% html. I don't know ANYONE that sends plain text emails tbh.

That's not a fair interpretation. Most people only want to send text for the most part, but are forced to send HTML via client defaults.

That's entirely false. "most people WANT to send text" .. nah most people literally don't care and are fine with the html default, and occasionally use bold or italics or images, and they would probably complain if they suddenly couldn't.

This is the true answer, everyone uses them and that battle has been lost years and years ago.

The effort should be fought in adding a newer way of doing HTML email that is better, and finally kill that damn IE 6-based renderer used by Outlook. Curse that thing.

Yes, this. Also, any good email client will strip out the graphics and just give you formatted text anyway. I use Fastmail's web interface and there's a "Load Images" button but I rarely click it. Best of both worlds.