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> Account recovery works the same with ...

Huh, that is a really funny way to spell "the primary login method used by every not-tech-savvy person I have ever met before".

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This would explain why so many places have been starting to force me to log in with an email instead of a password.

Oh right, I started to notice it too - couple non-tech people around me seem to treat "password reset" as default login flow, and definitely don't complain as much about auth flows as the rest.

I guess that's one effective way to cope with security industry bullshit.

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