Thunderbird is not dying. Great work has already taken place by some talented developers. Need proof? Check it out (though take note it’s a beta and shouldn’t be used in a production environment, yada, yada yada). That said, it been a long road to 3.0 but progress is being made.
You can also take a look at Postbox (run by some ex-mozilla folks), based the same core code with some pretty innovative features.
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The article you link to says that email is dying. You’re not really challenging that here.
The new generations of people, that Ive met, don’t even understand the concept of a mail app.
They are only used to webmail, I don’t see much in Thunderbird changeing that.