"Supporting sorting would cause an overhead to their system that . . ."
Nearly all of the functionality of the client is not on Google's servers - it's in the JavaScript code your browser downloads. This is why they can add offline support so easily. It would add no overhead, since it's essentially running on your system anyways.
"Can you give me an example of where you wouldn't be able to find an e-mail by search, but you would be able to find it by sorting your e-mail?"
Sure, not a problem: My college sends me an important email. Problem is, they send me lots of junk and non-important emails as well. I wouldn't know what to search for, but if I had it all sorted out, I could easily ignore all of the other mailing lists they throw me on and it would appear in my inbox.
"The key difference is that sorting leaves all your e-mails on the table"
Which I sometimes want.
Sometimes I catch things I wouldn't have otherwise caught when I do it that way.
"I can't picture a situation in which this wouldn't be more efficient than sorting."
Wow, you are so out of imagination these days.
Let's say I'm sorting a lot of emails simultaneously, rather than just searching for a specific email - for example, I'm redoing my labels based on different criterion.
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