FWIW, I completely agree. I simply want to look at my phone to see if I have a new text or email message, LIKE I USED TO BE ABLE TO BEFORE THE "UPDATE".
My Note 3 updated last night, but now it won't load email. I scowered forums for solutions and mostly saw recommendations to make sure "Auto Sync data" was selected in the Data Usage tab in settings. That didn't work. Any other ideas?