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Unfortunately it is.
Hopefully they won't discontinue the Linux bridge, as long as that works you can still use native Linux mail apps. But there's rumors that they might go away.
In that case you still have the third party bridge https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide
I made sure to tell them to invest more in Linux when they sent their recent survey my way.
I think their main goal is to reduce their platform support rather than diversify it. Using a single desktop app that's basically webmail inside a wrapper allows them to support basically any OS with a single app.
The downside for users is that reducing support for IMAP risks of causing lock-in. For better or worse IMAP is the standard way of accessing your messages for backup or to migrate to another provider and discontinuing it would be a very bad move.
...That doesn't mean they won't do it though. For example they have an export feature buried somewhere on their website. They could decide to kill the bridge & IMAP and only offer the export as the sole means of egress. In theory you would not be locked in, in practice who knows what the limitations might be. From a technical point of view, accessing your messages "live" through an IMAP bridge is a lot more secure than requesting a zip of all your messages (which needs to be stored temporarily who knows where).