If you go over his older videos, he actually predicted a lot of the stuff that is happening. People were ridiculing him for "client side scanning" etc. now its a reality.

Use eOS for couple of years now. Not a fan of the Bliss launcher, but its the easiest thing to download a different one. I use Simple Laucher from fdroid.

So tell me what are some things that he talked about that never happened?

I use 33mail.com, anyone using that? just the free option, never needed more than 10mb/month.