Maybe it’s because the android team shows utter contempt for their users. I’ve got an old android phone I need to use to fix some other broken google product (they just “forgot” to add two different critical features to their web and iOS apps). I can’t though because android non-consensually activated factory reset protection. I of course don’t have access to the old email address anymore so I can’t auth with the old address. (I still own the domain so I suppose I could re-enable a google account) but without expert level intervention the phone is useless.

Way to delight your users. Sorry did I misspell “display utter contempt for”?