Option to not assign a contact owner during first email

I’m surprised this request is still in “submitted” status because this feature is disruptive to many sales organization Rep assignment rules. Our Sales Reps don’t own a Contact/account until they book a meeting. They may email the Contact 5x before that happens and we don’t want them assigned the account until we consider it a viable lead.

Sales Reps are notoriously sensitive about account ownership and we need to control assignments as much as possible.

I know that we can do a workaround by assigning all unassigned accounts to a dummy account, but we shouldn’t have to do this. We can change the auto-assign a company to contact ownership feature, let’s be able to manage this as well.