Apple Mail Acting Funky with Gmail, Not Updating

I'm running OS X 10.9.1 on a MacBook Air and Apple Mail 7.1. I'm up to date on all updates.
It seems Mavericks and Gmail are not playing well together and my Gmail is not loading or updating consistently. I can force it to update using the following steps:
Open Mail
File > Close
File > New Viewer Window
Unfortunately this process needs to be repeated to manually update Gmail. Any advice?

Apple:  Your Mac Mail 7.1 on Mavericks 10.9.1 is terrible.
it is slow.
It hangs up in the IMAP push and pull with servers like G-Mail.
It dupicates addresses.
It can't handline large amounts of IMAP messages (I have over 50,000 emails) without confusing mailboxes.
When is the next update?  Lacking the next significant update, who are your competitiors who have competent programs?
Additionally you need to force quit the process thought activity monitor to shut down about 20% of the time.
Frustrated.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), Mail 7.1

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