Why is ‘Kind regards’ a bad sign off

[SuperiorM]

So, I’ve just heard that ‘Kind Regards’ is considered passive aggressive. Maybe I’m just old and out of touch but it sounds more like a more friendly’Best wishes’ to me. I suppose I’m going to have to stop using it.

Best wishes is a Christmas card to a friend/neighbour.

Regards or derivatives is a work person or a reply to a random email from some company you deal with.

Love/kisses etc to family usually. although some people use them a lot, which is fine and sometimes really nice.

Yes! Me and my colleague (shared mailbox) always select 'no'. Just unnecessary, always the same client too when we respond to them within 48 hours without fail everytime anyways (usually even sooner, but never more than)

Have an awful feeling the cringey over apologising style is particular to women.

No matter what sex you are in the field I am in, we are all uber polite and as if in 18 century. It's not apologising.

Quite miss the office face to face where an obnoxious smarny office lothario ( pissed) asked me what my name was, as he was Pete or something and we could be ( wink) close colleagues. I said " you can call me Ms Beesandhoney' in my best haughty voice:)

Can't do that on email. There is trail left for IT..

I'd love to!!

There is one person I contact (who I've been chasing her every week for about 5 years and we do get on really well) where I just email saying "Hi Jane, give me all your money or else!" and she'll often reply with "Ugh, go away", but I always get the money out of her in the end.

I don't like Kind Regards. It's too fake for me.

I just say "Thanks" at the end of my emails.

This infuriates me. I am busy. Put the whole query in your message. I now don’t reply until they have told me what they need.

Am I the only one who doesn't read the sign off?
Before I read the msg, I know who sent it. I don't care how they sign off.