Ask HN: User signup with OAuth has become insanely complex – is it needed?
Your application won't be too complex - it's reasonable to implement from a development perspective.
OR
You can go down the path of oauth using various "Login With" systems such as "Login with Google". And if you do this then your development complexity just went through the roof - god forbid that you should expand to multiple providers.
So how much does it really matter to provide third party "Sign in with Google/Twitter/Microsoft whatever"?
Is it just crazy featuritis in which "gotta collect em all, gotta do all the things" style of development?
Only having email based signup no doubnt will result in developers and stakeholders tut-tutting "Well we will lose users if we don;t provide ever possible way to sign up/sign in!". But is that really true? If users want to use your system won't they just use email signup/signin?
BTW I do understand that your application may need to use the APIs of that provider, in which case it is unavoidable of course.