People hated it and actually took the time to complain.
The lesson for me - make your auth process precisely what people expect - if there's feedback, it should be about your product, not about the signup process.
Signup process is not a feature - it's plumbing.
In the case of this new product / service - I note the headline is almost unrelated to what the product does - it's a headline about how the auth works on this - the technology something is built with shouldn't be the marketing message.