Deprecation Notice: Recover Accounts Elsewhere

"Warning: For security reasons, GitHub Support may not be able to restore access to accounts with two-factor authentication enabled if you lose your two-factor authentication credentials or lose access to your account recovery methods"

Given that I use GitHub to publish code, I can't lose access to the code - it's published - but I would worry that other people might be able to impersonate me and e.g., publish an update with a backdoor. Or the hypothetical impersonator could write racist garbage in every GitHub issue tracker they can find until the account is terminated, which hurts my reputation.

I think I feel the same about lots of other things. This HN account for example. Amazon. Facebook.

Probably not my bank, and not my government. I want the government to be willing to eat the cost of verifying that yup, I'm me - and never pretend that if that's too expensive it's somehow not their problem. It's disgusting for example that a Tory government destroyed records of who this country had invited from the West Indies in the 1940s and 1950s, then, knowing it no longer had those records, tried to deport people who had no proof of citizenship, arguing they must have come here illegally and should be sent "home" to a country they'd not seen for seventy years...

Do you think this feature has some unfixable security issue?

Or perhaps there are only a handful of users?