> The full and complete solution is to allow me to create a new inbox in Gmail through a single step, for example "j45rsdfjdocusign" which is linked to jsmith747 in a single direction.
When hosting your own email on your own domain you get this benefit out of the box now, without waiting for google to add it for you.
I've been doing this for years, each different company gets a unique email address. Real easy to see who has lost track of their email database, and very easy to turn off those that turn spammy as their business declines and they get ever more desperate to generate sales from their existing "customer list"
I realize that this took you 0 minutes to set up, but Google has 20,832 employees in Research and Development (2016 figure[1]), many, if not most, with PhD's. What might be obvious or intuitive for you and me might require them to have a team examine, do an internal publication with peer review, etc. I would prefer them to set this up but understand it takes a bit of time. Still, I think they should fast-track and get it it up. For amateurs, it's a 0-minute solution. I am sure they can do it quickly and professionally. Security by obscurity really isn't enough - someone there needs to do it. Cases like what we're reading about here show the importance of this. They're already done the bulk of the work.
That solves this one issue, but now you're fully responsible for your email server's security. While this may be a feature for some, for the general (developer) public, it's a bug.
Many cheap hosting services offer catch-all email option for your domains, and my own experiences using various services says it's generally included in the price i.e. "free".
When hosting your own email on your own domain you get this benefit out of the box now, without waiting for google to add it for you.
I've been doing this for years, each different company gets a unique email address. Real easy to see who has lost track of their email database, and very easy to turn off those that turn spammy as their business declines and they get ever more desperate to generate sales from their existing "customer list"