ICloud webmail - can I improve it?

Hey all,
I upgraded to iCloud as soon as it became available in the UK last year. So far, it's been a bit up and down. I really, really want to like it! I love using Apple Mail on my Mac, it's such a nice program, and my '@me.com' address is much shorter and nicer than my old Gmail address. iCloud.com looks much cooler than Gmail.com too.
However there are several things that are persisting to bug me, and preventing me from completely switching over from Gmail. I was willing to give Apple a few months to smooth out the problems, but nothing seems to be improving.
These is one of the main problems. Any help appreciated!
Email not pushing to webmail
This is the most annoying. When I log onto icloud.com (which I have to do all day, every day at work), emails do not appear quickly, if at all. For example, I'll get an email, and my iPhone will buzz straight away to alert me. Great, but I'd rather read the mail on my Mac. So I open up icloud.com in Safari or Chrome, and the mail isn't there.
Originally there was a little 'refresh' arrow (like Gmail have), so I'd click that, and the email would appear. Now Apple seem to have got rid of the refresh arrow. So I have to actually refresh the whole web page, which is insanely annoying and slow. Or alternatively, I have to click into another folder, eg Drafts, then back to Inbox, and then the mail will show up. This is really, really poor for a web-based email service! Email should appear in real time!
Can I do anything to improve it? Thanks for any help!

I have the same problem. Have you heard any solutions to the problem from any other threads you may have posted? I'm on a PC and even went so far as to install Safari on my PC to see if that would resolve the problem, to no avail.

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