GMAIL is no longer supported in IE

Hello all,

It has been some time.  Hoping that all of you are doing well.  So, pretty recently, i just discovered that my gmail will no longer open with IE and redirects immediately to Edge.  At least in my opinion, this is just bad news.  I find Edge just very poorly constructed and frustrating to navigate.  I could understand sites like YouTube (with video) not working with IE, fine, however, now, to even preclude checking basic emails, not a good move from a user experience standpoint.  

On a more grotesque level, could opening your emails through Edge, allow Microsoft more tools to intercept lines in your email IF they determine you to be some sort of "risk".  I wonder.... 

Regards,

H.B.