@darkavenger unless there’s a telephone number provided, or a postal address.
What if the website visitor is using the contact form because they don’t have an email address & is happy to be contacted by telephone?
There are plenty of use cases where having an email field as required is not appropriate or wanted.
I was getting the same error in Additional Headers with the email field set to email.
It seems the new update has introduced a bug where the email field needs to be required for the syntax to parse correctly.