I wonder if they're calculus here is that its more likely a laptop/desktop login is shared than phone access (which will require a gesture, passcode, or specific face). SMS can get real personal much faster than email (can use temp emails for those questionable logins but you tend to have one personal number)

Or its actually a bug, lol

It’s so bizarre. I wonder if it’s just a tech debt thing. I thought core data had SQLite as a back end, which should handle messages easily. So if this bug persists it must mean they have some legacy back end maybe? But yeah, it’s terrible

Wait for them to get to it. "also, we fixed that really annoying bug that should never have been an issue"...