Microsoft killed Outlook Lite the same way it kills everything that gets actual traction on mobile. The app hit over 5 million downloads by late 2023, precisely because it ran on devices with 1GB RAM where the full Outlook app is sluggish, and now it gets sunset because maintaining two apps costs money. The irony is that the users forced onto regular Outlook will be the ones least equipped to run it smoothly on low-end hardware. May 25 feels less like a rational consolidation and more like another chapter in Microsoft quietly exiting mobile.