Original article by Lopp:
By the time I left a decade later, that number was over 100 million emails per day.
I guess that's the main difference, I just have a few personal accounts, not sending any spam - sorry, marketing emails like his former employer.
So it appears the juggernauts have pulled up the ladder after themselves to make it hard on the competition. A kind of protocol-level instead of legal capture. But if you send less than 10 emails per day on average, you'll probably be fine, for now.