Gmail's spam filter is very good, and obscures how much junk is still flying at us all the time. You ever check your spam folder? Mine averages one piece of junk mail per minute, not counting the stuff that sneaks through to main account by imitating some insurance quote. 
It's an interesting problem - it's like society just agreed to sweep stuff under a bed or rug instead of every dealing with it. We just take for granted that scammers will bombard us with emails and calls constantly and we can maybe find a button that conceals it.
Good @Jon_Christian story about this from 2017. There was a time when a spammer could be identified and put on trial and now we just say "ah, dang" as the crap piles up. theoutline.com/post/2498/spam…
None of this is interesting or unique, which is the point. If you're like me you sometimes miss important messages under a deluge of crap, or get a scam call right when you're trying to finish some work. It's awful. Why do we put up with it?
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